On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:47:07PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > These are alternatves that depend on copyritht (as noted by others) and > that often fufill other goals than monetary support of the creators.
Why wouldn't the business models I showed you work without copyright? Are you saying none of them would work? > Look, I want to see copyright and patent reformed. They're awful. But the > abuses are in the implementation, not the idea. If by 'idea' you mean the idea of promoting creativity with incentives then I'm all for that. Again, why wouldn't the business models aforementioned accomplish this 'idea'? > But if copyright is abolished, then singers, writers, actors, musicians > will all become the lowest form of wage slaves and the profits reaped by > non-creators will be even MORE obscene. And I say this with some > confidence because that's the way it was before copyright. There is no > reason to believe that human beings have improved in some way over the > years. This all assumes that none of my proposed business models would work. I gave examples of people utilizing something like each of them. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
