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Originally Posted by Gwen Morse
I like authors. I pay authors. I want authors to go out and create. I enjoy their work. However, books (and photographs and music, and all the other creative endeavors protected by copyright) are not all so excessively precious a commodity that they "deserve" to be sheltered from the Public Domain for a *minimum* of 2-3x as long as patented inventions (and effectively much longer).
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Would you pay for an author's work after you have read it? Or seen it? Or heard it? That is the only way out of this copyright business. It would allow for the free sharing of all intellectual property. And an extremely competitive market would emerge where the best works would be rewarded well, and the lesser works would be rewarded less, and the garbage texts would be relegated to the bin WHERE THEY BELONG. The garbage would still be accessible of course, and even more so, some like dumpster diving after all.
