>Regardless of whether human creativity is intrinsically bound to economic reward "Reward" is the means to pursue your creativity. The ability for an author or

>Regardless of whether human creativity is intrinsically bound to economic reward "Reward" is the means to pursue your creativity. The ability for an author or a photographer or a painter or a musician to actually work on their trade instead of working menial jobs to try to support a hobby. There was once a time in human history where creativity wasn't a meritocracy. It was an idle pursuit that the rich engaged in. Is that a better model? >the fact of the matter is that you can't make the case that what we're dealing with isn't a matter of artificial scarcity From a naive perspective, of course you can copy that floppy. From a rational perspective, however, of course it deals with a real scarcity of creation that copyright seeks to prevent (just as patents attempt to prevent a scarcity of innovation, though the results are much more mixed).