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Originally Posted by leebase
Movies were made long before there was copyright. Oh well, not movies...but symphonies surely were. Is there any reason to think that movies are any different than symphonies?
Did books get invented AFTER copyright? If books could and did exist for a couple hundred years before copyright -- what gives us any indication they wouldn't exist afterward?
What you won't have are big Hollywood studios gouging the public with movie tickets priced out of our reach. You won't have those bastard music executives and publishers making big big bucks off of musicians and authors.
Lee
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It's not the 1750s any more. The days when it was labor intensive and expensive to make copies of creative works are well and truly gone. These days it's nearly effortless to make digital copies of just about everything. Do you seriously think people are going to continue to invest millions of dollars into movie and television projects that will be freely copied and distributed the moment they hit the market?
As for authors, are Stephen King or Dean Koontz or any other big name author going to keep writing when they can no longer make a living at it? A few will, as will some musicians, but like I said, most will abandon creative work and look for something that actually affords them a living.