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Originally Posted by carld
Oh, I very much disagree. The anti-copyright folks bring up the idea that writers can find other way to make money from their writing, other than getting paid for it, ALL THE TIME!
They never have any realistic suggestion of how this is supposed to happen in absence of copyright, of course, just either a sort of "well, it'll work out somehow" attitude, or "writers can dig ditches can't they?"
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But the thing is, apart from a tiny minority, copyright never actually helped most writers make enough to live on anyway. The rest have always had to supplement the money they make from selling copies of their work with other things. So the reason you don't hear about that many "new" ideas for alternative revenue streams is that they would be ones that already exist and that most writers are using for most of their income.
A few new innovative ideas exist but they're mostly new spins on old themes. For example if you fund your next novel on Kickstarter it's really a crowd-sourced version of commission/patronage.
BTW - I'm not anti-copyright as in "let's scrap the whole thing" but I am anti-continuously extending it and coming up with every more draconian attempts at enforcement.
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As to your solutions, that's just going back to the old system where the wealthy controlled the flow of ideas and information to the masses. I prefer not to retreat to intellectual serfdom.
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It never really went away. The wealthy always had more control over the flow of ideas, that's part of what it means to be wealthy. If you want an example, in global terms I'm wealthy and thus I can afford a PC, an internet connection and have enough leisure time to sit hear spouting my opinions on MR
