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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. 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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The only problem with your statement is the copyright laws no longer just protect the work of the creator. Big concerns, such as Disney, have successfully lobbied to have the "protection" expanded to include the heirs of creators or anyone who buys the work from the original creator and maintain that "protection" forever by allowing infinite renewal of copyrights beyond a reasonable time frame.