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Originally Posted by Jozawun
In the words of Bertrand Russell ‘Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence!'
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So, you can't refute the argument?
Dickens' works may have been pirated in the US, but they were still protected by copyright in England. He made less money than he would have made if his works had been also protected in the US, but he was only able to make a living from writing because of the copyright protection in England.
When Ulysses S. Grant was dying, he wrote his memoirs in order to provide for his family. If his memoir wasn't protected by copyright, anyone could have printed it without paying him or his estate a cent. Without copyright, this work wouldn't have been written, because it wouldn't have served his purpose, as his family couldn't have made money from it.