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Originally Posted by taosaur
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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Who said anything about a movement? You shouldn't place claims and concepts on to people who haven't presented them. I've been through this anti-copyright discussion at least a dozen times on this forum, and the same idea is always presented. "If there were no copyright authors would find other ways to make money," or variations on that theme. I've yet, through all the thousands of words written about it, seen any viable approach that hasn't already been tried and discarded by authors attempting to make money from their writing.