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Originally Posted by barryem
If we stop copyright it will cause huge problems, of course. Much of our system and our economy is built around it.
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True.
The number one system there may be a free press with enough financial resources to inform the public about all sorts of bad governance around the world.
That system has already been greatly harmed by the internet, which makes it easy to breach pay walls. Without copyright, it would be even harder to finance whatever you might regard as good journalism.
Excessive copyright also harms the public, such as when editors need clearances for fair-use quotation of 20th century historical figures.
As for novels, sure, they are important. But I think research-based non-fiction is more at risk from bad copyright practices.