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Old 01-28-2008, 05:04 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
Well, how do you think they planned to solve the problem? By guaranteeing creators compensation for their efforts, as encouragement for creating and sharing. That's the whole point of copyright and patent law... pure capitalism at work, "If you do it, the government will make sure you get paid something for it."
I objected to the word "proper". Some compensation is one way to solve the problem. There might be other ways. But if you define the problem as how to give "proper compensation" to somebody then you will miss a lot of possible solutions.
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