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Originally Posted by leebase
You are GUILTY! Guilty of being able to follow an argument.
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And you are GUILTY of not being able to follow an argument.
Prior to your post #403 barryem had already stated...
"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."
As far as I can see MarjaE is in favour of a short term copyright situation such as the current status quo. barryem is the only one, at least in the last 10 to 20 pages, who has even suggested it might be worth discussing if copyright should be removed and has gone on to clarify he is not advocating for it to be removed.
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Originally Posted by leebase
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”.
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Yep.
And people can write under the current copyright rules if they want and accept those terms or not. One of those current rules is that yep, their work eventually belongs to the public. Just like all that work they used as inspiration for their own work.
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Originally Posted by leebase
My co tempt is for the NOTION of making everyone's work “publicly owned”.
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Well them's the breaks. Don't like it, don't write.
My contempt is for the idea that those who have benefited by the work that has gone before them are too selfish to pass on that benefit to those who come after them.