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Originally Posted by GeoffC
And the rights of the individual to seek due recompence for their craft...after all it's the way they make their living....
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This kind of statement makes me want to play devil's advocate, especially since I have nothing resembling a creative bone in my body.
I make my living administrating computers for an insurance company. If I get let go, no one is going to be paying me for the login script I wrote a couple of years ago. It doesn't matter how long it's used. Certainly no one is going to be paying my kids for that work after I die.
What makes a writer's work so much more valuable than mine - if he wants continued income he needs to continue to write sellable material, not depend on income from something he wrote years ago.
(This post is made more or less tongue-in-cheek. I'm well aware that as an employee of someone else I have benefits that a freelance writer doesn't have - pensions, matching retirement funds etc. And I'd certainly like the writers I enjoy to be able to make a comfortable enough living that they can continue to write good books for me to read.)