Hi!
I brought up Star Trek for two reasons. One was about the economics of scarcity as mentioned, but the other deals directly with the value of copyright in "commercial" work.
Did you know that one of the inventors of the cell phone got the idea for the device after watching Star Trek? If you took a poll of all scientists, I suspect a very significant portion of them would tell you they were heavily influenced by Star Trek.
Star Trek is under copyright yes? But it is also mostly free, at least in some parts of the world. Think of all the technology that has been developed due to copyrighted science fiction, and then think of all the technology that might have been and can still be developed if copyright was done away with and science fiction texts were available to everyone everywhere.
There's lots of reasons we should do away with copyright, but all we need is one.
Also, yes I am unemployed at the moment, people think I'm weird when I start talking lol. I also think this thread is mostly done, there have indeed been many reasons given for the eradication of copyright, we could go into the realm of property in general, but I'm going AFK for a few.
