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>why would any sane person want to create something that not only could be stolen and redistributed sans attribution, but that would be? Well it wouldn't work
by golol 3y ago
>why would any sane person want to create something that not only could be stolen and redistributed sans attribution, but that would be?
Well it wouldn't work with current business models, but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists. Also, if you design a chip, or a phone, or a car, I'm not sure if it's really the copyright that's stopping other people from stealing your idea. It's the tools, the people and the understanding relate dto your idea that they don't have.
- warrenm 3y ago>but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists Sure - "free" (or efectively "free" (to the majority of users/enjoyers) items exist Patronage existed for millennia before the Rennaissance (and does still ... albeit in the form of member-only access and/or "publicly-funded" works) But ... that model leads to markedly closed-off generation of new work - either it is generated for private use, it is generated for "specific" public use (eg to enjoy the statue in the town square), or (in a very small handful of cases) is generated on the "good graces" of the creator (eg Tom Lehrer turning his work over to the public domain a couple years ago ... though for the previous 50+ years, it was all under copyright (and, FWIW, still is copyrighted by Lehrer, it has just been opened to the public))