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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Who would pay JK Rowling or George Lucas billions of dollars upfront for what their copyrights turned out to be worth?
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Another question is, are those works really worth billions of dollars just because so many people like them and buy them? I'm not questioning their quality, but whether the "fair amount" an author should eventually get is really affected by the success of the creation. Do we really think a carpenter should get billons of dollars if he makes a chair for a hospital waiting room, but only a couple of bucks if he makes a purely ornamental table in a corner nobody cares about?
Fair price and compensation is too complex and subjective to ever get a universal definition, unfortunately.