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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Don't just quote it... Read it. What's the point of securing exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries? So that they can gain due compensation for their efforts, to make them willing to produce for others... that's the fair part.
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Where did you get "due" from? Were is is specified that "due compensation" is the goal?
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That's why it was written, and there is no other conceivable reason to write it if it is not to establish fair compensation for the creator. (For the record, "fair" means "not taken advantage of.")
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No the goal is not that the compensation is fair. The goal is that the compensation should stimulate production. So the real goal is to stimulate production. I do not understan why you do not realise this simple fact.
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(sigh) I grow weary of this incessant wordplay, not to mention the clear implication that I'm a greedy, capitalist baby-eater with delusions of grandeur because I believe in neanderthal concepts like money. Let's cut to the chase, Tompe: Do I, as a creator, deserve to be paid what I ask for my creations?
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From my standpoint your word play provokes me so I write here... Of course you do not deserve to be paid whatever you ask for your creations. I cannot see that if you ask one billion dollar for a copy of a book that you deserve to be paid that amount. You have the possibility to ask this price and you have the possibility not to sell the book if nobody wants to pay the price but you do not desverve to be paid whatever you ask.