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Originally Posted by kilofox
"There is no free lunch." Milton Friedman US economist (1912 - 2006)
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Tread carefuly, there.
Mr Friedman was a very vocal proponent of the "Free Market Economy" model. Economics 101 will tell you that Free Market needs regulations to avoid monopolies if you want to it to work.
By its very nature, the current model for creative works
is monopolistic: IP is monopoly on the rights to distribute. No monopoly would mean no IP, i.e. anybody can use any work relevant to IP (as we think now) in any way they please.
That includes reselling copies, derivative works and so on. I doubt Steve Jordan (or Cory Doctorow) would like that.