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Maybe I interpreted the grandparent's "perfectly" here a bit too literally: > Don't be so naive, a world without copyright could perfectly work. I don't doubt
by gurkendoktor 14y ago
Maybe I interpreted the grandparent's "perfectly" here a bit too literally:
> Don't be so naive, a world without copyright could perfectly work.
I don't doubt for a second that some music would be recorded and some software be written without copyright. But for it to be "perfect" or anything close to that, it'd have to be of the same amount or at least quality. How is it naive to doubt that this would be the case?
- kmm 14y agoI used the word naive to preemptively deflect the bad argument that I would be naive because I believe in a working world without the current idea of copyright, something which I hear way too often. If we take the word naive to mean "lacking experience, information or clear judgement", I would say a person is naive is he believes a world without copyright would lead to no creative works appearing at all. You say some works would still be created but the original post I replied to implied nothing would be created at all. I think it's important to realise, there is no way to know whether a world without copyright would work other than just doing it. But I've heard enough arguments in favour and I'm reasonably sure it would.