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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1500574" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>Sigil touched a subject that has been on my mind a lot the last ten years, patronage vs. copyright. As Sir Thomas Babington MacAuley said, copyright is a neccesary 'evil' that was used to let creative talent make a living. When portrayed this way, i can only say, that it was a good move at the time. These days however, it's not used to let creative talent make a living, it's used to let companies make profit, instead of making the people that actually wrote have <em>compensation</em> for their work. Note the use of the word <em>compensation</em>, <em>compensation</em> as in payment for services rendered, and not as in payment for taking an idea hostage and profiting from it.</p><p></p><p>Copyright was instituted to let creative talent make a decent living, because they couldn't get a decent patronage from the rich and where very limited in the exposure their work could get before being published. These days i can chat and pitch an idea to millions of different locations/people on earth in the time of a mili-second. Patronage has become less of a problem, because more than one patron will step up to the plate if your idea has merit. Just look at this site when it came into financial difficulties, lots of patrons payed for keeping this site up. The same is being done with a lot of other projects, in software, writing, and dozens of other fields.</p><p></p><p>I'm not someone that wants it 'all' for free, i want it 'all' while making sure those who provide 'all' have a decent living. I see copyright as an outdated model that's being misused by both corporations and certain people.</p><p></p><p>The fact alone that such a large portion of the worlds population is guilty of 'pirating' should tell you that there's something wrong with the current copyright laws. The problem now is that 'pirating' is actually promoting the idea that everything is free and the people that rely on patronage are suffering for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 1500574, member: 725"] Sigil touched a subject that has been on my mind a lot the last ten years, patronage vs. copyright. As Sir Thomas Babington MacAuley said, copyright is a neccesary 'evil' that was used to let creative talent make a living. When portrayed this way, i can only say, that it was a good move at the time. These days however, it's not used to let creative talent make a living, it's used to let companies make profit, instead of making the people that actually wrote have [i]compensation[/i] for their work. Note the use of the word [i]compensation[/i], [i]compensation[/i] as in payment for services rendered, and not as in payment for taking an idea hostage and profiting from it. Copyright was instituted to let creative talent make a decent living, because they couldn't get a decent patronage from the rich and where very limited in the exposure their work could get before being published. These days i can chat and pitch an idea to millions of different locations/people on earth in the time of a mili-second. Patronage has become less of a problem, because more than one patron will step up to the plate if your idea has merit. Just look at this site when it came into financial difficulties, lots of patrons payed for keeping this site up. The same is being done with a lot of other projects, in software, writing, and dozens of other fields. I'm not someone that wants it 'all' for free, i want it 'all' while making sure those who provide 'all' have a decent living. I see copyright as an outdated model that's being misused by both corporations and certain people. The fact alone that such a large portion of the worlds population is guilty of 'pirating' should tell you that there's something wrong with the current copyright laws. The problem now is that 'pirating' is actually promoting the idea that everything is free and the people that rely on patronage are suffering for that. [/QUOTE]
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