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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I don't recall anyone saying there was anything wrong with that.
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It seemed to me to be what bill_mchale suggested, strictly unspoken though it was.
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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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Once again, that appeared to me to be the suggestion.
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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.
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Why is it that
his family would have made no money? They would likely have made less money, but less does not actually equal nothing.