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Old 12-05-2010, 06:51 PM   #83
tompe
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Why have society pay for the author's livelihood (through social services) or force authors to spend all their time to work on some other job? Isn't it much easier for society to create a mechanism that offers authors a chance to make money off his/her work from those who actually enjoy the books? Copyright is such a mechanism. Somebody has to pay, why not the readers?
Yes, it is a very good idea but is is just a mechanism with a goal. I was just responding to the strange idea that the society had to give authors this chance for whatever time (or infinite time) that that author required.
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