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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
You'd think it to be basic economics. And yet this National Bureau of Economic Research document I previously linked gives quite a bit of evidence in the other direction.
What I think is that the existence of copyright gives the public not more art, but better art. My Exhibit A is Sir Walter Scott, who, after Ivanhoe, wrote too fast because lack of international copyright protection meant he had to churn out books to pay bills. |
It seems to me that taking away the ability of authors to sell, but increasing the options for readers to pay would solve this ivanhoe problem.