On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:51:08PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > 2 unanswered questions I have: > > > > * Are we sure it is more than a tiny fraction of creators that really are > > making a significant amount of $$ due to copyright? My hypothesis was > > that > > the vast majority are not. > > Then your issue is that copyright is poorly implemented. Abolishing it > doesn't follow.
I think we first need to establish if and why vast majority aren't making a significant amount of $$ from copyright. Perhaps they are making it from some other business model. Perhaps they don't care to make $$$. Perhaps their creations don't appeal to a mass audience. There are lots of reasons besides a poorly implemented copyright system. > > * Are we sure there aren't new post-copyright business models that would > > be as > > good if not better than copyright model? If so, this might go a long > > way > > towards concerns about compensating creators. > > > > Chris > > Have you described one? I've been in and out of this thread, but most of > the alternatives I've seen here are pie-in-the-sky "everything will be OK > if we just let nature take its course" Marxist wet dreams. You can only > believe they'll be better by ignoring human nature and history both. I respect your comments. How about taking our examples from open source world? This isn't exactly what a post-copyright world would be like but it may be close enough for our purposes. Also, these are real business models and not 'pie-in-the-sky Marxist web dreams' to use your terminology... ============================================== "Give Away the Recipe, Open A Restaurant" - ============================================== Give away creations and sell related 'services' like what Red Hat does. Furthermore, rock bands could promote their concerts by sharing their music over the Internet like the Grateful Dead. I heard many other bands are doing that now. There is even a name for bands that mimic what Grateful Dead did but I can't remember what it is. ============================================== "Linux/OSDL" - ============================================== Be such a good artist/developer/writer/musician that your 'fans' will pay you $$ to keep creating. This is what Linus T. is doing at the company funded Open Source Development Labs. ============================================== "JoelOnSoftware/O'Reilly" - ============================================== Developer/authors could distribute writings/code/music for free over the Internet and *still* sell dead tree books. Lack of copyright would not mean I could walk into a book store and take any book I wanted! Hope that helps. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
