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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I'm surprised to see how many think that PD is more important and that it somehow applies to books when it doesn't apply to land or other talents.
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It does apply to other talents, that's why we have patents as well as copyright, but this is a book forum, and we've been asked more than once in this thread to focus on books.
It doesn't apply to land because no one creates land.
No need for incentives to get people to make more land.
What's there is there and everyone needs to live on some of it.
Some might argue no one should own land, but that's a different topic.
If one day people learn to develop planets to live on, there may very well be a law that says the terraformers get some sort of incentive, and then the land is made available for the greater good.
And the greater good is not faceless. Just look in a mirror. Or at a child.
The fact of the matter is no one owes you a living doing what you want. If books were not thought to be important to the greater good, you'd have to find some other way to put bread on the table.* Go dig ditches. People need ditches dug and are willing to pay people to dig them.
But we DO think books are important, so we create copyright to HELP you earn a living doing it. Rather than complain that the help need to be more of a guarantee, I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way.**
ApK
*Or find some other way to monetize your writing.
**K to the first person who gets that reference.