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Originally Posted by MGlitch
no.
More like
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.
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Actually, the comment from leebase that I specifically responded to came
after the comment by barryem stating...
"I'm not sure I'm really advocating that we end copyright. Books are important to me and that would be a risky move with no more information than I have. But I think it's worth some discussion."
So I think that makes it pretty clear barryem is not "advocating" for the total removal of copyright.
I admit I have not bothered to re-read every post by MarjaE but I can't remember any post advocating the removal of copyright from that poster either. I stand to be corrected on that if you can link to one in which they did advocate for it
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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Actually leebase countered with "In what fantasy world do we believe people will just write books for free?" Nothing in the rest of that post mentioned anything about professional writers either.
MarjaE simply replied that they and many others already do this. Nowhere in this response by MarjaE did they suggest this is a reason to abolish copyright.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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Yep, all that came after it was pointed out that the initial comment was demonstrably false and after my responding comment that you thought was unfair.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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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Actually leebase is responding to something barryem had already clarified and explained without taking that further clarification into account.