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>When the next book in a series arrives, there is no substitute. This is only because publishers enjoy an artificial monopoly on the production of specific wor

>When the next book in a series arrives, there is no substitute. This is only because publishers enjoy an artificial monopoly on the production of specific works thanks to copyright. Without these limits, you would see a free market in competing editions of the same books, such as exists for books in the public domain. The Iliad: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the%20iliad&sprefix=the+iliad%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Athe%20iliad http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahuckleberry+finn&keywords=huckleberry+finn&ie=UTF8&qid=1401302390 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahuckle...

protomyth 12y ago
> This is only because publishers enjoy an artificial monopoly on the production of specific works thanks to copyright. Without these limits, you would see a free market in competing editions of the same books, such as exists for books in the public domain. No, I wouldn't because J. K. Rowling would have never wrote it since she couldn't make a living at it and wasn't independently wealthy.
- milkshakes 12y ago
  there are other motivations besides getting paid cf. open source, fan fiction, wikipedia
  - vertex-four 12y ago
    The majority of open source software is written so that somebody can make money off it. It just happens that what they're making money off of isn't the software itself, the software is a means to an end. Have you ever found fan fiction that spanned upwards of three hundred pages, was actually well written, and was not written for profit?
    - jessaustin 12y ago
      http://hpmor.com/ http://hpmor.com/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/
  - protomyth 12y ago
    Allowing people to make money from what they are good at seems to work best. Ask authors about having to cram writing into little blocks of time outside of a job that they would rather not be doing. Other motivations are fine, but people got to survive. Looking a Linux, it seems most commits are by people getting paid.
    - moron4hire 12y ago
      The extremely restrictive version of copyright that we have today is not necessary to get authors paid. Far, far from it.
      - chrismcb 12y ago
        Other than length of time (which is way too long), how is today's copyright extremely restrictive? and how can it be made less restrictive and still remain a copyright?

protomyth 12y ago

> This is only because publishers enjoy an artificial monopoly on the production of specific works thanks to copyright. Without these limits, you would see a free market in competing editions of the same books, such as exists for books in the public domain. No, I wouldn't because J. K. Rowling would have never wrote it since she couldn't make a living at it and wasn't independently wealthy.

milkshakes 12y ago
there are other motivations besides getting paid cf. open source, fan fiction, wikipedia
- vertex-four 12y ago
  The majority of open source software is written so that somebody can make money off it. It just happens that what they're making money off of isn't the software itself, the software is a means to an end. Have you ever found fan fiction that spanned upwards of three hundred pages, was actually well written, and was not written for profit?
  - jessaustin 12y ago
    http://hpmor.com/ http://hpmor.com/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/ http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/
- protomyth 12y ago
  Allowing people to make money from what they are good at seems to work best. Ask authors about having to cram writing into little blocks of time outside of a job that they would rather not be doing. Other motivations are fine, but people got to survive. Looking a Linux, it seems most commits are by people getting paid.
  - moron4hire 12y ago
    The extremely restrictive version of copyright that we have today is not necessary to get authors paid. Far, far from it.
    - chrismcb 12y ago
      Other than length of time (which is way too long), how is today's copyright extremely restrictive? and how can it be made less restrictive and still remain a copyright?