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Originally Posted by leebase
Everything that can be accomplished without copyright can already be accomplished. Anybody who wishes to give what they write to the public can.
Do away with copyright and you do away with everything that can only be accomplished with the concept of intellectual property.
Writing would be solely from the hobbyist, those that find a patron, or the independently wealthy (or the dedicated poor).
What you won’t have at all is investment. No one can afford to invest in something that has no ownership.
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We have a deal. You provide the works, we give you a monopoly to exploit it for a fixed period of time. Everything you see around you in the IP worfd was for a limited period of time.
Nobody put a gun to the heads of the creators.