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The question was, “What renaissance would occur if copyright didn’t exist?” Here’s one that happened because the source works weren’t indefinitely protected (i
by thebooktocome 3y ago
The question was, “What renaissance would occur if copyright didn’t exist?”
Here’s one that happened because the source works weren’t indefinitely protected (ironically, what Disney wanted for their own derived works.)
- tptacek 3y agoWhy would any renaissance occur if copyright didn't exist? You'd be eliminating financial incentive to produce interesting new work. If those financial incentives weren't required, we'd already have those works today.
- thebooktocome 3y agoHere’s another example: during the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson revived interest in The Matter of Britain (King Arthur, Lancelot, etc.) by publishing, over several decades, what would become The Idylls of the King. Thence T. H. White, thence Mary Stewart, thence Marion Bradley (an otherwise wretched person), thence that terrible Sam Neill vehicle, thence. . . All of this to say there’s a flaw in your logic: financial incentives are not the only reason people create new things. Financial incentives in fact destroy other artistic incentives, and so we already lack the works that would have been created in their absence. The proof of this is the graveyard of Netflix series canceled in the second season. (P.S.: Ah, here, in the acknowledgements to _The Mists of Avalon_: "Finally, I must express loving gratitude to my husband, Walter Breen, who said, at a crucial moment in my career, that it was time to stop playing it safe by writing potboilers, and provided financial support so that I could do so. . ." A potboiler is a book written to cater to the popular taste, so that the writer might earn a living.)
- tptacek 3y agoIf you don't want the financial incentive, you can forego it. That's what fanfic is.