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Originally Posted by Format C:
So whenever you buy a loaf of bread you keep sending money to the baker's heirs for 70 years, right?
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When you buy a book do you keep sending the money to the copyright holders for 70 years?
I don't, it is the other people who are buying the book who do that. And no-one is pointing a gun to their head to make them buy the book. Maybe they won't buy the book in which case no-one is sending money to anyone.
When I buy a loaf of bread, other people will AFAIK still have to buy their own loaf tomorrow or 70 years from now whether from the bakers heirs, current owner of the bakery or a different bakery entirely, or they could bake their own bread of course, but I doubt it will be free and delivered to them electronically.
Who knows though, could happen
Helen