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Originally Posted by HarryT
It seems like simple common sense to me, Tommy.
Copyright law grants the creator of a work the exclusive right to control it and profit from it. .
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Only for the first sale. They have no control over what happens to it after that, or who can profit from it. DRM is an attempt to control what happens to goods after the first sale.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't need to conduct "empirical studies" to tell me that if that exclusive right to profit from a work did not exist, neither would the motive to create it.
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I don't think financial gain will be the major motivation behind any new writer, that would only come later when they realised that they might be able to make a living doing it. People write because they have something to say. Always have, always will. The cream will still rise to the top, just the same as it always has. Along with the scum.