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The goal of incentivising work is nice. But the concept of copyright is busted even from the concept. The idea that you have a story that you wrote on your own
by fnord123 6y ago
The goal of incentivising work is nice. But the concept of copyright is busted even from the concept. The idea that you have a story that you wrote on your own dime and you're shopping around to publishers puts the authors in a tournament theory situation which is totally abusive.
The other issue of bringing a document to an independent publisher (akin to having a Chinese factory build your devices) who could steal the IP is a contractual and security matter.
- dtech 6y agoIt is independent of publishers. An author could have handwritten the books himself with no intermediaries before sale. Without copyright anyone who brought the book could replicate and sell it without restriction and sell it for cheaper, while the author doesn't get anything.
- snowwrestler 6y agoIf you have no legal right to your creative output, you have no basis for writing a contract about it. You can't write enforceable contracts about things that don't exist. Copyright is the basis for contracts about creative works. Without copyright there is literally nothing to steal or protect.