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They will pay, and for big famous pieces of art like GoT they'll pay lots of money, but even then it will be off by an order of magnitude of the production budg

by est31 7y ago

They will pay, and for big famous pieces of art like GoT they'll pay lots of money, but even then it will be off by an order of magnitude of the production budget, not even calculating the marketing budgets needed to keep that fanbase.

hutzlibu 7y ago
Well then GoT would go away, if not enough people are willing to pay for it. The world will move on. More critical would be medical research, but I believe there is actually already lots of freely donated money for example in cancer research involved. But surely much more is needed, so the change would be with friction ... but if suddenly all the medicine can be made freely, the benefit for the current world population which mostly cannot afford expensive medicine would outweight it, I believe. (anyway all hypothetically anyway)
- est31 7y ago
  Medical research is protected by patents, which are different from copyright. Their term is shorter (that's good) and they have exhaustion (even better). Patents protect not just medical research but also engineering research, etc. It's a good idea to have them in general, as people otherwise employ secrecy over their methods and might not invest into research at all as it's not lucrative. Software patents are a very bad idea and quite counter productive though.
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    Sure, sure, but obviously in the hypothetical scenario of a world without copyright I meant also without patents. In general I believe the idea of intellectual property is wrong and innovation blocking. But since we live in a world with it by default, it is hard to prove it right or wrong. And it is very hard to prove it small scale, since the big industry woukd just use the work of a small inventor without any compensation if they don't have to, just like with open source. And to the point of the example of patents and secrecy I would add, that for example Elon Musk decided insome cases to not make a patent, because it is a blueprint for others. (don't have the link right now)
erikbye 7y ago
Why do you keep on calling GoT art? It is just another commercial cash cow.

by est31 7y ago

hutzlibu 7y ago

Well then GoT would go away, if not enough people are willing to pay for it. The world will move on. More critical would be medical research, but I believe there is actually already lots of freely donated money for example in cancer research involved. But surely much more is needed, so the change would be with friction ... but if suddenly all the medicine can be made freely, the benefit for the current world population which mostly cannot afford expensive medicine would outweight it, I believe. (anyway all hypothetically anyway)

est31 7y ago
Medical research is protected by patents, which are different from copyright. Their term is shorter (that's good) and they have exhaustion (even better). Patents protect not just medical research but also engineering research, etc. It's a good idea to have them in general, as people otherwise employ secrecy over their methods and might not invest into research at all as it's not lucrative. Software patents are a very bad idea and quite counter productive though.
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  Sure, sure, but obviously in the hypothetical scenario of a world without copyright I meant also without patents. In general I believe the idea of intellectual property is wrong and innovation blocking. But since we live in a world with it by default, it is hard to prove it right or wrong. And it is very hard to prove it small scale, since the big industry woukd just use the work of a small inventor without any compensation if they don't have to, just like with open source. And to the point of the example of patents and secrecy I would add, that for example Elon Musk decided insome cases to not make a patent, because it is a blueprint for others. (don't have the link right now)

erikbye 7y ago

Why do you keep on calling GoT art? It is just another commercial cash cow.