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Originally Posted by leebase
Without copyright, there is no way to profit from authoring books.
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People did manage to make money from books they wrote before copyright was created.
I don't advocate the removal of copyright now--the economic & social settings are different--but I don't think copyright is the only way for authors to make money.
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Consider the millions of dollars spent on creating the movie Avatar. Without copyright, I could instantly create a copy, distribute it across the internet for free, instantaneously.
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Are you under the impression that this didn't happen? That free digital copies of Avatar aren't widely available, haven't been widely available since a very short time after it came out?
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You think such a movie would be made in that environment?
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If Avatar hadn't been made, I don't think the human race would've collapsed in anguish. In fact, I don't think anyone would've noticed.
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And yet, what books are people upset about? They are upset about the price of these professionally created books because THOSE are the books they desire to read.
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No, what I desire to read is a particular type of fanfic, but since my favorite authors don't write fast enough, I occasionally go looking for ebooks from other sources.
I'd like some of those to be authors I remember fondly from childhood, but since their books tend to be twice the price I'm willing to pay, and DRM-infected as well, I mostly stick to relative unknowns when I'm between fanfics.