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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
And what exactly do you propose we replace the current copyright with? I am all for scaling back copyright to reasonable levels. That being said, ignoring copyrights and depriving living authors of their livelihood deprives the authors of their very incentive for writing in the first place.
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If we keep something like copyright I think it should hold a very short time. Five or ten years maybe.
Also as have been pointed out most authors cannot live on the income from their writing. They write because they want to write and the live on something else.