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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Both sides of this argument are a bit contradictory: Do you want all works to be free, or do you want the creators of the works to be able to profit? You can't have both.
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I don't want the works to be free in the way that other people want them to be free. I just want to be able to be able to show how my reader displays a page in a book without it being illegal.
If you go by the current copyright laws you can't record something if there is music playing in the background, or a TV is on in a background. Photos of objects are 2D copies of 3D objects so if the object is under copyright, the photos are illegal as well. The only reason why people support copyright law is because they don't know how little they can do under it.
And when it comes to the author's profit, you seem to be ignoring that fact that authors were selling their works before copyright as well. Some authors were cheated out of their profits before copyright, and some are cheated out of their profits now. Publishers provide a service to the authors just like the government provides a service to the citizens but nobody would be happy to be taxed 75% of their due income and think oh well, the government is expensive to run, this is fine.