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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
Why stop there, wouldn’t it be grand if my mechanic, rather than receive payment for his services, accepted a big ole hug? Or say, how about a nice thumbs up for the fella who just reshingled my roof. Or, at the end of the week, rather than collect a steady paycheck. wouldn’t it be great if your boss based your pay on what he/or she felt like doling out – or, even better, just gave you an enthusiastic pat on the back and exclaimed “job well done”?
Ok, and so but back here in the reality based community…
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In all of those cases you're comparing payment for services versus payment for IP. They're entirely different things. I don't necessarily agree with the point Moejoe is making here, but your analogy is way off. Just about anytime you try to make an analogy between physical property, employment contracts, or service work, compared to copyright, it's going to be flawed. They are fundamentally different things, which is why so many people struggle to understand them. You can't think of them in the same terms, trying to do so just confuses the issue.
It might be a little closer to compare the money a mechanic earns to the money that a publisher fronts an author while they are writing, but even then it's not really the same thing.