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> It's hard to pay rent when your only profit is the ability to copy other people's work. Worked for Edison. On a more serious note, if everyone is copying fr
by derleth 15y ago
> It's hard to pay rent when your only profit is the ability to copy other people's work.
Worked for Edison.
On a more serious note, if everyone is copying from everyone else, we're all on a level in that respect and the only differentiating factor becomes, again, some kind of individual talent. It might be an Edison-like talent for copying, a more Negativland-like talent for copying and remixing to make something new, or a Brian Wilson-like talent for creating something that's about as novel as anything can be.
- Someone 15y agoThat might work if everything we needed were copyable. Let's say you spend a year writing some program, and let me freely copy it, I spend a year on the farm, show you my potatoes and apples, and tell you you are free to copy them, too, as long as you leave my copies alone. Would you consider that a fair deal?
- derleth 15y agoSo a song isn't an apple. We know this already.