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Copyright is actually about making sure people have enough incentive to keep doing all that hard work of discovering cool new numbers.
by jtbayly 5y ago
Copyright is actually about making sure people have enough incentive to keep doing all that hard work of discovering cool new numbers.
- mnsc 5y agoPeople create cool new numbers all the time without worring about royalties and how-am-i-going-to-make-a-living-from-this-diddly-tune. Copyright is a way to commodify something deeply human to allow capitalists to make money from it. Put it this way, in a post-scarcity money-less world, musicians would still make cool new numbers, advertising people would not be creating any advertising numbers, they would probably make music as well.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoPeople will do that regardless of incentive. It's essentially a basic brain function, it can't be turned off. I'm discovering a new number right now by posting this comment.