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Shaggy, I think this statement: "if you want to continue to get paid, you have to continue to work. In every other profession I can not expect to keep getting paid for work I did yesterday. If I want another paycheck today, I have to do work today. I don't just make something and then expect to get paid over and over for the same thing." is a fundamental misunderstanding of intellectual property protection. A copyright entitles you, the creator, to collect monies for work that you did, not only yesterday but possibly years ago. So the copyright holder can indeed expect to get paid over and over for the same thing. The Constitution provides explicitly for protection for copyright (and patent) holders. Such protection, moreover, is an encouragement to create more and maybe better and more popular things. Pogue feels, as do other creators, that he is being cheated out of such earnings (maybe he is, and maybe he isn't, I don't know). The work is done once, no additional work should be required to reward the creator.
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