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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
While I agree that copyright laws are too restrictive, mostly because the time period before expiration is way too long (which is moot since they can be renewed) and because of archaic restrictions on making backup copies and doing media changes, eliminating copyright laws would pretty much guarantee very few writers would continue to write. It takes a lot of time to write a large novel (even a small one) and, if they couldn't get paid for their work, they would have less time to devote to writing because they would be spending their time on a "real job" to put food on the table, etc.
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If it puts an end to books written purely for financial gain I would see that as a good thing. But what makes you think writers won't make any money from their writing? Presumably people would still want to read it even if all the restrictions on who is allowed to read it were removed. If anything, they would gain more readers.