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There is no justification for copyrights and patents any more than there is for any other monopoly. However if we get rid of them there is a need to socialise

There is no justification for copyrights and patents any more than there is for any other monopoly. However if we get rid of them there is a need to socialise creative production so that artists of all shapes and hues in all creative fields can still afford to live simply doing what they love to do. It's a fair trade. Producers can copy and extend whatever any human has created but in return they have to produce enough to look after them.

colechristensen 8y ago
>Producers can copy and extend whatever any human has created but in return they have to produce enough to look after them. Which is just a royalty with extra steps. The problem with most attempts to subvert a capitalist/market economy is that they all only manage to obfuscate the usage of money and ownership and replace a lot of it with centralized control. Your idea still requires ownership of IP and compensation for it.