Yes, Tuukka, I agree. If I had my way, authors would write books and give them directly to libraries, not sell them. I do not believe they should sell books for profits because this is not what writing books is about. Indeed, if authors wrote books for the purpose of writing books, the TRUE authors would come out, and not these leaches that write just to steal money from people. I don't understand how authors can claim to own a book, since the book only comes alive when somebody reads it. It is the reader that owns the book! If anything, the authors should pay the reader. We seem to have this all backwards in this country. People getting rich for all the wrong reasons.
We have musicians that make millions of dollars and all they do is play music. If a musician lives for having people listen to their music, they should not get paid for this. They want people to listen to their music, so the musicians should pay the audience, not the other way around! If there was no money associated with writing music, then the TRUE musicians would come out, and we would have much better music. It would be done by people that actually care about music, and not money. There are many musicians who do this and provide music free on the internet. That is a real musician, the rest are parasites! Art is for the people! The same goes for movie actors! Why do they get so much money? They have the privilege of acting, and having people adore them. Why add money to this? We have rich actors making movies about poor people in crisis. What is that all about? I am with you Tuukka! Artists should be given some money, and should not make money from what they do with the money they were given. That is criminal! This would certainly be one way to get rid of the super rich in this country, and stop these characters from influencing our politics. What difference does it make who an actor supports? We have got it all wrong! We keep giving these artists money, and for what? The good artists do art for art's sake. Let's get rid of the charlatans. Cheers, Mark On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > [Tuukka] >> I'm okay with artistic intellectual property being given away for free, >> if there is basic income guarantee and no welfare traps. If we don't >> want that, why would we even want public libraries? > > Good point! > Public libraries are an example of the government buying 1 copy of a book > & letting many read it without further compensation to the publisher or > author. > This has, in Bertrand Russell's classic phrase, "all the advantages of theft > over > honest toil". > Craig > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
