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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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.
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My (admittedly snarky) point was, wouldn’t it be great if we all lived in a world in which we all shared our skills freely, with little or no need for personal monetary reward.
Unfortunately, reality tells us otherwise – and to a large extent, artists, like the rest of us, need and appreciate being paid for their services.