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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I disagree. (Surprise!  )
Copyright doesn't just protect the Big Bad Corporations. As Elfwreck points out, it also protects the (small) content creators as well. |
Sure it does. Talking about the book market, however, those small creators make up what, .5-1% of the market, if that? I'm very sorry for them, but I'm not going to accept as necessary laws that are said to "protect the little man" when 99% of the benefits go to maybe 100 publishers, if not fewer (considering recent consolidation of the market).
Like Doctorow said, those small indie writers are only going to benefit from increased notoriety (they can hardly earn less, in any case), and if they don't.. well. They should perhaps more care about the fact that they're being allowed to leave a legacy for future generations to remember them by? Yes, this is hardly a satisfactory answer, but imo copyright does
far more bad than good, while it's not even proven that it works for 5% of the [known? good?] authors (mind you, I don't want to talk about revenues here, I'm talking about literary success).
Anyway, read the
book by Boyle.
