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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Couldn't the lack of printing have been due to the fact that Gutenberg wouldn't be born for another 2000 years? I doubt the ability to make a profit would have motivated Plato or Euclid to write more. People were free to copy their works, and did so for themselves or for the limited audience which could understand them.
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Wasn't talking specifically about Plato's and Euclid's time, which is why I said "over the ages." Making a living from the work you perform is a foundation of our society (most of it anyway). Whatever the particulars of this or that era, artists being paid for their work is a fundamental concept that's been true as long as there have been artists and commerce.
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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Things should be done as they will yield the most benefits in our age, not in the past. You claim to be for the reworking of copyright, yet you still believe a creator's estate should retain copyright for some time after his/her death? This being about the worst excess of copyright as it currently exists, I cannot imagine what it is you intend to prune from it.
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Yes, I still think that's the way it should be. I think the current duration is far too long, but I don't think eliminating it completely is the right thing to do either.