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If there is no copyright, what incentive is there to ever create anything digital? Adobe would never invest in Photoshop if any random person was legally able t
by GhostVII 5y ago
If there is no copyright, what incentive is there to ever create anything digital? Adobe would never invest in Photoshop if any random person was legally able to sell copies for $1 each. A production company will never publish a book or create a TV show if anyone can just undercut them by taking what they have produced and resell it. Doesn't seem like a con to me, it sounds pretty critical for any kind of functional digital market.
- korantu 5y agoMost of people who contribute to open source software are not motivated by copyright. I think without copyright we would still have our software, just would have way bigger share of open source software in the world, as well as nastier copy-protection mechanisms. And more services that are online only.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> Most of people who contribute to open source software are not motivated by copyright. I disagree. License choice is deliberate, and many open source licenses are chosen for the strict stipulations they put on users and developers, like mandatory attribution and terms of distribution or reproduction. I release some software under the GPL and AGPL. I don't want anyone to use my software that doesn't intend to abide by the terms it was released under. If I wanted to release software with less stipulations, then I would, and I have.
- zarzavat 5y agoYou are in a minority though. Most open source I see is BSD or MIT.
- heavyset_go 5y agoBoth licenses have mandatory attribution clauses, which is one of the stipulations I mentioned, along with mandatory inclusion of copyright notice and license. BSD in particular has specifics about advertising and distributing other files, as well.