Thread: If you had a vote for copyright?
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Old 01-25-2012, 11:14 AM   #251
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post

Sure, there will be people who write "just to write"... but people like that are not the target for copyright laws anyway, any more than a pedestrian is the target of seat belt laws.
They would be affected by it though, just like the pedestrians. With every new car safety feature introduced, the pedestrian death toll has risen. Just because someone gives their writing away for free it doesn't mean they would want Disney turning it into a cartoon.

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