This seems to roughly translate to 'anything anyone makes that they show
to the world, can be taken and used by anyone in the world'.
Which feels like a setup for making creators very paranoid about what
they share with the world.
Doesnt seem like a fun place to live if it had that effect.
The whole point of copyright was to encourage people to make and share
things in the knowledge that the time and effort they spend doing so
will have the potential to be recompensed. If instead they feel that
putting their creative work in the public domain will prevent recompense
(remember everyone has to eat) then you disincentivize them to share the
work. In the case of industries where the work must be shown to be sold
(art, music previews actually just about anything) then you
disincentivize them to create the thing in the first place.
If people want to share their work with all and sundry then brilliant,
and it's what we have creative commons for.
Copyright may be broken but chucking it out and not having something put
in its place for the original aim of encouraging creative works, seems
*lazy*.
Apologies if I'm misinterpreting anything you're saying.
Alia
David Tomlinson wrote:
Fearghas McKay wrote:
I mis-understood your intent.
If there is no copyright.
When you make the images public, you relinquish control.
The alternative is to keep the distribution limited, and use trust.
While you may have an emotional attachment or a feeling of entitlement
to the images, this is not a good basis for public policy.
As to why someone should make money from them ?
If they can add value in some way ?
Why would people pay for the images, when they are in the public domain ?
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