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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Ensuring that popular authors can continue to produce work is in the public interest.
Copyright laws (like all laws) should always be about the public interest, not providing a secure income for a small subsection of society. Unfortunately, in many cases that's precisely what modern laws, especially in the US, are all about.
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Yes, but there is a fine balance between the two isn't there? I mean granted a person shouldn't think of their work as being a source of steady income that will sustain them forever so that they don't have to work, but if it doesn't bring in enough income for them to be able to eat while they do the writing instead of another job then they will turn to other means of gaining income and stop writing (or at least produce less since they have to have funds to live on as well). And we'll all be the poorer for it.