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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1558667" data-attributes="member: 10913">You are correct, of course, I should have been more precise. IP is NOT reserved in the academic world; attributing it is. If I publish an article on general relativity, no one should quote it and say its his work. But if someome quotes it and says it is my work - all is fine.Correct. I never said it was a perfect model, I said there are other models. Pretending that the only possbile model is IP-protection is folly.And for the record, I do not believe IP-protection allows artists to control what they are creating. They still get paid by patrons; it is just that in our times the patrons are more intersted in selling the artist's goods to the public, and so the nature of the works has changed.I wouldn't know; what is the NEA? (not american, here)I do not believe most people will pay for what they are getting for free, nor did I suggest it. I simply noted that I and others DO pay for some products we can get for free, and pointed out that there are organizations that provide free services with voluntary costs.I DID state the people should be rewarded for their work, and without it IP development would slow down. My only goal in my post was to clarify that in a world where IP-theft is legal there will still be economic reasons to produce IP, not just altruism, and that economical institutions that encourage IP production can be established on a basis that is not IP-protection. That is all.As for auctioning - an interesting idea. I think it impractical, however - surely WotC could not haggle with every customer that wants to purchase the PH.Again, I am not advocating any reform in any economical system, nor did I attempt to claim that supply and demand should be repalced by another system. I think it is the best of all possible evils - much like democracy. I simply attempted to note that in a world devoid of IP-protection there will still be economic incentive to produce IP.</blockquote>

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