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Originally Posted by HarryT
Hardly - libraries are, IMHO, one of the hallmarks of a "civilized" society.
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I hope one day online libraries or stores will have e-books of all books that were found on paper.
I think for the system to promote creation of more works effetively, it needs to:
1) work only as long as it would really encourage the author to create more (which is impossible when the author is dead, and I never heard of anyone specific who wrote a book so his heirs could have more money),
2) the money paid needs to be a part of the deal for the person wanting to read the book. Otherwise the money the author receives isn't really a good measure of how much the book is needed, if only because the buyer wouldn't know how much he pays. For that reason I believe competition of book stores is better than libraries.
Of course, all this is a system to promote creativity, and doesn't need any assumptions about "rights" or "laws".
I wonder how the world would look like if every worker who built part of the house demanded money from every new person who moved in to this house, for life + 70 years. Of course, to encourage him to build more houses, whether they're needed or not.