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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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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.
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You are GUILTY! Guilty of being able to follow an argument.
People can write for free if they want. Good for them. The existence of copyright doesn’t matter to people that want to write their OWN MATERIAL for free. And “for free” I don’t mean “copyright held but copies given away without charge”.
I mean “for free” as in “willingly put in public domain”. Knock yourself out copying and extending the works of others who say “that’s ok by me”.
My co tempt is for the NOTION of making everyone's work “publicly owned”.