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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Whatever is wrong with doing stuff, whatever stuff it might be, for the benefit of culture and society in general?
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I don't recall anyone saying there was anything wrong with that.
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To suggest that no-one will do x if they can't make shedloads of money off it is not just, in my opinion, a fallacy, but also, again, somewhat insulting to a huge number of people.
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Who is saying
no one will do X unless they can make money at it? But people do have less incentive to create if they can't make money at it.
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A good author's books will (hopefully) sell well and earn that author a good income during his or her lifetime. In what way then has the incentive to write for money been removed by limiting copyright to lifetime only?
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In the last year of his life, Ulysses S. Grant found out he was dying of cancer. He sat down and wrote his memoir, to provide for his family, as he was destitute. It was published shortly after his death. If the copyright had been limited to his own life, his family would have made no money, thus the incentive to write his memoirs would not have existed.