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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Once we end copyright once and for all, and to be sure all that is needed to end it is the acceptance by enough people that it is simply over, we can begin to create the last library, the first library filtered by any who wishes to contribute. Sites like wikipedia and various others are good first steps, but they are hindered by in their mission by copyright.
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You do realize that copyright is about more than books, yes? I haven't had anything I've written published in a long time (magazine articles), but I've done other things that are protected by copyright.
Know any web designers that get paid for their work? Freelance journalists? Ad writers? Photographers? Without some form of copyright protection, any kind of writer, photographer, designer, painter, CREATOR, loses the right to retain ownership and control over their creations. There's a hell of a lot more at stake here than "access to information".
Works-for-hire will no longer pay well, because the company who pays for those rights will no longer have exclusivity. Freelancers can no longer get paid because they no longer have any rights to sell off, and who's going to pay for content that their competitor can publish as soon as a copy is available?
In your brave new world, what industry will suddenly spring up to give good jobs to the millions of creators and support staff who can no longer put food on the table?
Generally when I hear "information and knowledge want/need to be free", it's really an excuse to not pay for things that are neither vital knowledge nor essential information. No child has ever grown up stupid or uninformed due to lack of a free copy of a James Patterson novel or a Britney Spears album. Many a child has, however, grown up with a twisted notion of value and a bloated sense of entitlement because no one taught them that we have to pay for the things we would like to have.