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Old 04-04-2012, 01:34 PM   #48
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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!
I'm sure they do, all six of them, especially when they have their annual conference in the back booth at Denny's. My point was that they're a tiny minority of the people making the argument that publishers and writers are doing a lousy job of adapting to technology. They're also a tiny minority of the people pushing for copyright reform. The largest fair-use movement, Creative Commons, is a form of copyright.

There's no reason that exploring new business models has to be threatening to or mutually exclusive with copyright, royalties or advances. Your "anti-copyright" movement is a paper tiger.
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