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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Would you agree that the abolishment of copyright might help in the education that you speak of? Did your education, your learning how to be fair to everyone, did this involve the use of copyrighted materials??
How are those with no access supposed to be educated? Each one teach one? That works, unless the teachings are rotten at the core.
Each one teach one how to learn.
On the surface it does appear that living conditions in certain countries have improved dramatically, but at what cost? We have not solved the energy crisis yet, Nothing can rise without the fall of another.
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You have a point as to educational materials in these poor nations. But how does that affect copyright in western nations -- that appeared to be your main point throughout this thread? Besides, providing educational aid materials should be part of general foreign aid -- with the copyright holders to be paid out of such funds (although at greatly reduced prices). You cannot expect copyright owners to be the only ones to pay the burden of helping poor countries' education. And what good would no copyright on English language books do for the people in poor countries anyway, the vast majority of those poor don't speak English. Furthermore, the teaching materials would have to be printed anyway, in such countries only the rich have access to the internet and devices to read.
As far as general reading is concerned, there is enough material out of copyright (and that is of higher quality than most of the new books) for people to read. Why must people always have the latest bestsellers?