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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Leonardo, please create the most beautiful portrait of a woman that man has ever seen; when you are done, I will draw a mustache on it.
Does that help you see why it might be a disincentive?
Or how about, spend 5 years of your life writing a novel that publishers love.. but they refuse to pay you for it and also are going to make changes to it without your permission. Your morally complex antagonist is going to be replaced with a mustache twirling villain because readers hate morally ambiguous villains.
Or every idiot with a word processor is going to add a Mary/Marty-Sue character to the novel and republish it so they can show all their friends how cool they are.
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Those examples are fine and dandy like sour candy, what's to be upset about? Your second example presupposes the continuation of a system that allows artists to sell their work on the network. We envision a network where the act of selling is disabled, where it is only possible to buy. In this way no one would be able to steal anothers creation for profit. It's not a requirement for an end to copyright but it goes a long way toward realizing that end I think.