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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
But we are not really talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is not limited by copyright. If I write a book describing a new invention, even if the invention is under patent, anyone else is free to use that knowledge anyway they want (as long as they don't violate a patent). They can even develop a new presentation of that knowledge and upload it to the internet.
What you are talking about not just the knowledge, we are talking about the work itself. An author might spend years working on a novel, both writing it and editing it; he might have poured every effort into making sure that every word and every comma is just right. Why then should he not be entitled to enjoy some of the fruits of that labor?
Lets remember, without copyright, the author might just decide not to publish in the first place.
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Bill
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I agree that a creator should be compensated if a reader finds their text useful, but I do not agree that readers should be restricted with what they are allowed to read based on economic status, this is the 21st century after all, can we not contemplate a system that allows everyone to read everything while still compensating the creators? Why force ourselves to live in the stone ages of copyright? lol copyright? since when has anyone copied anything?? All we do is download.