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Originally Posted by leebase
It's selfish to withhold knowledge and entertainment for the poor. Have you no heart?
And yes, I agree, in our capitalist society a lot of such evil occurs. Getting rid of the unvirtuous notion of intellectual property and copyright is just the first step in making society better.
Wouldn't it be better if every book in every university were freely available to the poor? You think we are best served by withholding knowledge for only the elite?
And such "day jobbers" will continue to have jobs. Isn't that the best way?
Lee
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I think that open source textbooks are a great idea - a big help to developing countries.
In our capitalistic society, if people who create are not paid, then our entire arts, culture, and entertainment realm would go over to unpaid amateurs.
I am not totally against this as there is a lot of talent out there. But how do unpaid amateurs create sets for a play or movie? How do they pay for book printing or DVD production? How do they hire cameramen, people to move sets, or pay for marketing to get people to see it.
If our society were more like Star Trek, where people's needs were taken care of without money, then people could create solely for the joy of it and the recognition.
But until then if we totally removed all copyright, etc., the only art we would have is folk art and the only books by amateurs.