'Copyright law should be abolished entirely. No one can legitimately own creative works.'
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support 0% · Education and Enlightenmentmoderated to 100%; argued down by 100%
by anticopyright on 2005-05-05 18:27:09If there weren't copyright, virtually every person would have access to the entirety of human culture.
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oppose 0% · Re: Education and Enlightenmentmoderated to 100%; argued down by 100%
by herodotus on 2005-07-24 10:17:23without copyright laws the motivation to create culture would largely dissapear and there would be no substantial culture to access -
oppose 0% · Re: Education and Enlightenmentmoderated to 100%; argued down by 100%
by metric on 2005-07-24 18:36:12Nothing would disappear. The ways in which information is created would shift. As it exists now, people create works and rely on the government to protect those works. Without copyright, they would have to get funding up front.. before they create the information. Once created, it is for the world to consume. Information that hasn't been created or communicated yet still has intrinsic value. Its value is in the fact that it can't be reproduced. Once you communicate that information, its value is lost. Gold would cease to have value if it was effortlessly reproducible.
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title: 'Re: Education and Enlightenment'
text: 'Nothing would disappear. The ways in which information is created would shift. As it exists now, people create works and rely on the government to protect those works. Without copyright, they would have to get funding up front.. before they create the information. Once created, it is for the world to consume. Information that hasn't been created or communicated yet still has intrinsic value. Its value is in the fact that it can't be reproduced. Once you communicate that information, its value is lost. Gold would cease to have value if it was effortlessly reproducible.'
tags: information value
date: 2005-07-24 18:36:12
submitter: metric
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