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Old 01-22-2012, 01:13 PM   #222
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Originally Posted by miguel1626 View Post
This is a stupid poll, but if I were forced to choose at gunpoint, I'd vote for keeping copyright forever. Stories don't write themselves, you know
I agree with you. Given the two extremes, that's my choice also. The lesser of two evils for me personally.

I was going to quote a few others but there was too much; it would have been a multi-quote mess. HarryT brought up the importance of the right not to publish in response to the idea of "on sale within a certain time frame". Copyright effects a lot of content, not just those that we first think of when we mention piracy.

Over and over the discussion has been had here on MR. And over and over some folks say "there will always be writers who don't write just for money" (aka, the right to be the one to profit from their work) and so on. But forget the money for a moment. For some creators, the emotional component is the driving force. Does this mean that removing copyright protection won't effect them? Hell no!

I give away my (at the moment small) selection of music on the internet. The embedded music player has a download button and I even give instructions on how to use it. People have my permission to download my tracks. That's my choice and it's a very important one. If that choice is taken away from me, and everyone could legally just do as they please, then I would no longer be putting it out there.

I'm not just vomiting sounds over here, I'm creating something that's important to me, and it's mine. Even if the copyright duration was reduced to, say, 20 years, I'd be fine with that because for that 20 years, it's mine.

Someone mentioned (not even sure if it was in this thread) that we just needed something to take care of the financial compensation part, but for some of us, it would be meaningless without the ability to truly feel that what we create does, for a time, belong to us. Not everything is about money.
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