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The entire copyright industry for example. You mean like... books?
by reissbaker 5y ago
The entire copyright industry for example.
You mean like... books?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoPhysical books? No.
- reissbaker 5y agoHow do physical books not depend on copyright? The author still needs to get paid, and printing is fairly cheap.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoPhysical books are valuable. Some people just prefer them over ebooks. As physical items, making and distributing copies is non-trivial and costs money. Due to their scarce nature, it actually makes sense to sell them.
- reissbaker 5y agoRight, but without copyright, anyone can copy and reprint any book that gets written, and the original author doesn't get paid.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoAuthors should get paid for the act of authoring. Not for selling copies after the fact. It's the labor that's valuable, not the result.
- iggldiggl 5y agoWhile I understand what you're getting at, how do you determine the actual value of the author's labour in advance, though? Copyright allows you to speculatively publish a work and let that determination of how valuable your work actually was happen afterwards, by taking the number of people willing to pay for it as a proxy for your labour's value.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI don't know. This is a problem society must eventually figure out. Perhaps crowdfunding or patronage is the answer? I just know that intellectual property needs to go. In many ways it's already gone, these publishers just need to let it go.
- iggldiggl 5y agoUnder a no-copyright model, people willing to pay for physical books isn't directly linked to publishers/printers still willing to pay the author, though.