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While 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 speculative
by iggldiggl 5y ago
While 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.