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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
OK, I'm gonna make this short in the hopes you might actually read it. If you don't, I won't waste my time replying again.
• Luck is present in every economic and cultural success. Copyright is no more or less a "lottery" in this respect than anything else.
• The rights holder does pay for protection, in two ways. The primary way is that most of the burden of enforcing copyright falls on the rights holder.
• Just as with police and fire, copyright holders pay taxes. Sales taxes on the content; corporate taxes on the publisher; income taxes on the creator / rights holder.
Registration changes nothing about the above factors or their dynamics. You aren't any "luckier" or likely to succeed because you register. And the rights holder is already paying to protect the work, via any litigation costs and taxes.
Thus, the "lottery" concept is patently absurd. I suggest you drop it.
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Everything you say applies equally to every other form of I.P.
except copyright. Every other form of I.P. has to be
registered (with payment up front). That means, as far as I.P. goes, that copyright is "free riding" on the I.P. system.
Copyright is the easiest of the three types of I.P. to create. (And if you don't believe me, read one of my Red adventure.) That's still not an excuse to let copyright "free ride" (since you're hung up on the term "lottery ticket").
I don't buy off on the "poor artist" viewpoint. There are "poor inventors", they have to pay full price. And don't say they are all corporations, I helped a friend get a patent on a new variant of canal lock design a couple years ago.
Copyright should be an "opt-in" system just like the rest of I.P., not an "opt out" system. It was that way from 1791 to 1976 in the US, I didn't see any lack of creativity during that period...