Savater criticizes lack of protection for copyights

Spanish writer and philospher Fernando Savater described the problem of "piracy" and the lack of protection for intellectual, literary, artistic, film and journalistic production as “fairly serious.”

He added that creation is condemned to death because of this problem.

At a meeting with journalists and senior editors of EL UNIVERSAL, Savater said that it is necessary to ask web hosting services and search engines to protect copyrighted content even though “dealing with them can be complicated because no one wants to have such a powerful enemy.”

He recalled that authors such as Miguel de Cervantes was victim of piracy, because his work Don Quixote was copied in Venice six or seven months after it was published and added that Charles Dickens fought a law that prevented non-American writers from being paid.