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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Copyright was created to keep publishing houses from stealing each others' works by underselling & not paying the authors.
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There are plenty of way IP as it currently exists hurts the artist to benefit the corporation for all but the highest echelon of megastars. Look at Danger Mouse's problem releasing "Dark Night of the Soul" (the recording sessions for which personally bankrolled with no involvement from the studio). Or, as an avid comic book fan, I've always been interested in the struggle of Jack Kirby and other creators (and now their heirs) of classic characters to win back some modicum of control over their creations from Marvel/Disney and DC/Warner.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Inner-city libraries in poor neighborhoods would stock up on letter-sized printout binders of works from the web. Eew.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I see you've never lived in a ghetto. Never dealt with schools that keep the same books for 10 years or more, that hold fundraisers to buy fire safety equipment. That keep student records on cards in the office, because they can't afford a computer, and if they could (used computers really are cheap now), can't afford to train anyone on how to use it.
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What's better for those schools? Hundred-dollar hardback textbooks or print-on-demand paper copies? What's better for those libraries? What's better for the environment?
You hold your nose in disdain at the photocopy of a PD or CC work for your inner-city library, ignoring the fact that such an option would exponentially increase the number of books those kids would have access to. Of course, Doubleday won't be pocketing $30 for the glossy hardback of Harry Potter, but I'm more concerned about the kids.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Right now, Disney can't grab your short stories & make movies from them. Are you granting them that right? Do you put your works out, not as CC works, but as public domain works?
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I can't speak for Moejoe, but personally I use a CC NC-BY-SA license for my own stuff, which I distribute 100% free (except on Amazon because they won't let me list for under $0.99). At the same time, if I woke up tomorrow and saw that Disney had made a movie based on one of my stories, I would be beside myself with glee, even if they hadn't paid me one red cent.
And I'm dead-to-real serious on this one. If anyone knows Bob Iger, you can pass on the message: Moxie Mezcal will not sue you for making a Sweet Dream, Silver Screen movie.
I mean it, Bob. You don't even need to send me an invitation to the premiere or a contributor's copy DVD.