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Originally Posted by PKFFW
hhhmmmm......
Comment about fantasy world where people would write for free....
Pointed out that people already do that.......
"I swear to god just cause you write stuff no one wants to read....." (finishing with dismissive strawman of opposing viewpoint)
It would have to be a very charitable reading indeed to come up with the interpretation that leebase was being anything but rude, condescending, and argumentative.
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Barry and MarjaE made points for doing away with copyright entirely, Barry flat out saying it, MarjaE contributing that it wouldn't be as bad as people were saying.
Leebase counters with the argument that authors don't write for free, because those who do it as a
profession don't do it for free. Those who do it as a hobby might, but they aren't material because as Lee later points out, though most should be aware of, the creative commons license exists for them.
Lee also points out that just because no one wants to copy the stuff that would fall under creative commons, doesn't mean that professional authors wouldn't be grossly negatively affected by doing away with copyright.
I don't agree with lee about copyright being perpetual, but he's not even arguing about that here, it's strictly limited to the proposal that Barry put forward and MarjaE backed up.