Thread: There is no copyright
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Old 05-17-2011, 07:59 PM   #176
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Copyright can cost authors
I don't think anyone has mentioned that copyright also costs artists.

Every time I go to buy a new ebook I have to NOT buy several books because they are not available to me (usually due to pointless geographic restrictions, sometimes due to the titles not being available on my reader's platform or not in ebook format at all).

Without copyright I would quite probably be able to get my hands on any book I want in whatever format I want.

DRM, publishing, etc. all add to the costs of getting a book to readers. Some of this cost would be removed if there was no copyright.

If artists and publishers can work out ways to make money without selling copies they will probably make more money than they will under what copyright will become (a huge, totally anonymous honour system).
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