On 9/9/09, Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > i don't know... in my mind, charging for freedom is not a whole lot better > than charging for access.
They're worlds apart. Almost every profession in the world has a standard of works being financed through either "pay for creation" or "pay for use after creation", with subtle differences re: whether stipends / salaries / retainers or contracts on the one hand, or case by case licensing fees or 'royalties' on the other, are used. Very few professions have had a standard of "optional payment for appreciation after creation"; infrastructure to support whuffie-at-a-distance is almost wholly unknown before the Internets. SJ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
