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Copyright doesn't exist to encourage consumption copyright doesn't care if people buy your work it cares about work being released into the public domain. Creation not consumption not consumerism. The cost is to stifle the creativity of others pride and prejudice and Zombies was creative it's a good argument for a strong public domain no the author didn't have to remix the book the author also didn't have to write anything at all.
Every year someone has to wait is a cost to society of the creativity that comes form building on an older work, just as every year something is under patent is a cost in cheap medicine or a better mousetrap or a better whatever with a new doohickey that would never had appeared if not for the first invention, no car without carriage no carriage without wagon no wagon without wheel. No Buffy without Dracula. No new books without freedom to build on what came before. No reason to give you an artificial monopoly when I won't have the freedom to build on it.
And for the love of the gods stop claiming gratis is equivalent to libre a work that i can access without cost is not free for me to use as I like. If you want the benefits of copyright an patent you pay the cost of copyright and patent. You argue that people should pay when something is copyrighted, well the cost of copyright itself must then be paid and that cost has been clear from the beginning at least in the United States, public domain.
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