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> there's no workable mechanism for compensating the copyright holder You don't think copyright holders make money on their works?
by cxr 4y ago
> there's no workable mechanism for compensating the copyright holder
You don't think copyright holders make money on their works?
- WillAdams 4y agoNot for stuff placed on the Web in a simple and universal fashion --- otherwise there wouldn't be systems such as Patreon and Ko-fi.
- cxr 4y agoI don't understand what you're saying. Patreon, which exists and permits "stuff placed on the Web" to be accessed upon payment, either works or it doesn't. HTTP additionally has a whole range of standardized 4xx status codes related to authorization—notably 402 Payment Required, but also 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden. Similarly, subscriber-only podcasts exist. Either people are getting paid for stuff (which would necessarily imply that it's possible), or they aren't.
- WillAdams 4y agoMy point is that there's no imprimatur for placing copyright material on the Web and then automatically paying the owner of the copyright --- without that, there should be no de facto expectation that a copyrighted document exist on the Web which is what I understood you to be specifying.