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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Gosh, you're right. I guess that's why we didn't have authors or books before copyright and why no one made any money on books until copyright was extended world wide back in the early 1970's.  |
Early 1970s?
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"The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland in 1886."
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A tad earlier than the 1970s!
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Perhaps the idea of copyright should be abandoned, and we should simply go to a model of the artist and inventor getting a share of the net revenue from the use of their work or idea rather than getting control over the use of their work or idea.
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Ummm... I rather thought that's exactly what copyright helps to ensure... without copyright, how
would you ensure that authors actually received "a share of the net revenue from the use of their work"? What would there be to prevent a publisher from simply going ahead and publishing manuscripts sent to them, and keeping the revenues to themselves? At the moment, what prevents them from doing that (and remaining legal) is copyright.