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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4686729" data-attributes="member: 2732">One point that is missed by you MO is the fact that in the past, the products were limited by location.  You had to be in England to see a play, you had to go to Rome or art gallery's to see the art.The Copyright and Royalty concepts came shortly after the printing press.  The printing press allowed people to mass produce books.  After that came the concepts of copyright.  If you have a mass audience reading or consuming your work, you have an expectation to be paid more.  Just because the ability to copy gets cheaper or even easy doesn't mean the compensation factors will go down.Print, Radio, TV, and the Internet have given more avenues to get your work distributed by the masses.  The rise of technology has given more controls on content, NOT less.  I see that as fair.  If your books are read by more people, you should get compensated more.I fully expect that there will be ways to get compensated for on-line distribution, even if that means the Internet is less like the wild west and more controlled.Technology is followed by laws regulating it--those are inevitable.  Those thinking that this will be a sudden revolution that will bankrupt the media industries.  It may be somewhat disruptive, but I also doubt it will be the utopian dream that a lot of fans are hoping for.</blockquote>