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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Personally, I'm against copyright because it allows the author to sit on his behind after writing a single well-selling book. 
Since most books experience 80% of their sales in the first 6 or so months, a copyright period that is perhaps a small multiple of that seems reasonable. Authors can still get money by selling the first publishers the right to print their books first (First mover advantage works just fine in every other market, so it will also work fine here), and that should be the end of it.
Monopolies discourage innovation, in patenting as well as in copyright. Imagine having a society of people who are all the descendants of "great" authors.. All of them would be doing nothing because they can just sit back and enjoy living off granddad's pension, without having contributed anything to society. Is this something one should aspire to through legislation? I think not  |
Now *THAT* is an interesting reason for removing copyright protection!
Not sure I *like* it, but that sure would be motivation for writing more, yes???
Derek