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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
People wrote and created stories for thousands of years before copyright, if it vanished overnight they'd continue to write and create stories. Already there are thousands and thousands of free novels and stories all over the web.
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Most of those creating those stories were supported by the wealthy. Nowadays, most of them seem to be supported by a day job, spouse, etc.
As for copyright, that has little to do with being willing to pay the author for what they produce. Very few of the authors I've met are writing just for the money with many ranking the egoboo higher but money does help convince them to continue writing.