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Originally Posted by gmw
There can be a huge amount of work between an initial idea and the piece of paper, in some cases there can be years of work and considerable sacrifice of time and money etc. Ask any author, ask any inventor. There may be occasion things (inventions or stories) that leap fully grown into an author's/inventor's mind, but these are the exception not the rule. The rule is hard work, and now you want to cast that hard work aside as if it were nothing?
I am not sure I follow your line of thought here. How exactly is making it possible for authors to earn some money for their efforts related to spending money on bombs?
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I was actually talking about a copy of the brain state that would be tradeable, and when used correctly would lead to the art. Are we going to start copyrighting brain states, and by extension the brain itself? Perhaps we have already done so.
As to the second thought, it appears to me that our culture has gotten better the more educated its citizens are, so stop spending money on bombs and start dropping ereaders from planes, or pbooks I suppose, maybe solar powered disposable ereaders?
Taxpayer funding for the arts? Wouldn't that be better than tax money for bombs? We wouldn't really need copyright in that type of situation.