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Where do they discuss the topic ? as much I loved zlib .. I cannot forget that copyrights is what allows knowledge to be spread most of the time. If people coul
by agumonkey 3y ago
Where do they discuss the topic ? as much I loved zlib .. I cannot forget that copyrights is what allows knowledge to be spread most of the time. If people couldn't at least live from their writing (not even make a big profit) how else would book emerge ?
- Takennickname 3y agoI would argue that the most popular books in the world are all uncopyrighted. Bible Quran Shakespeare I'm sure many others
- abeppu 3y agoSomewhere, a publisher is giggling as they change the constants in problems in an otherwise unchanged first semester physics book with an upcoming new edition. I think a lot of good books never pay their authors much, at least in proportion to the effort that goes into researching and writing them. Scihub was also violating copyright, but academic paper authors don't get paid by publishers; they the journals. Lots of intellectual labor goes into producing a good where the author would much rather you read it without paying than buy it but not read it. This is all to say, the publishers, who are perhaps no longer needed in the 21st century, are sales motivated, but there's at least a substantial category of authors who are not.
- agumonkey 3y agoFair point, maybe it's about rebalancing the system more than going fully one way.