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But the world managed quite a lot of art & science before copyright was invented, and quite a lot more on very limited copyright terms, and we shouldn't be stuck on the idea that copyright is the only way to allow creativity to flourish and be rewarded.
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Your quite right, historically Germany managed quite well without either patronage and Copyright for some hundred years after Britain introduced it.
It's a funny thing, if you went to an economics teacher 5-10 years ago and said I have a business model, where highly skilled people spend their time for free, making highly innovative and creative work and... this is the interesting part... they GIVE it away rather than sell it. That person would have thought you were mad. But we got wikipedia, google, apache, linux etc. tons of really great innovative products being given away for free.
(Credit goes to RSA animate, kinda borrowed their argument here)
We're kinda clinging to an outdated model here, that to deal with the inherent problems of digital progress becomes even more restrictive and less user friendly. We don't need a revolution, we just need the industry to realize that there's alot of money to be made if you work with the progress.