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On 11/16/2011 10:57 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:

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> "In a capitalistic society, it should be possible to earn money by

> investing your time and effort in producing things people need/want.

> People being paid for their time and effort directly may be preferable.

> There's still a need/use for copyright to protect the outcome, to allow

> the investment to be made beforehand. This way, payment can depend on

> the quality of the outcome."

>

> So basically what you are saying is that in your view copyright is

> something that will motivate people to create things and that without

> it people are less likely to do things.

That's not what I said, as I did not say anything about motivation, for one.
> It is not a bad argument in itself as long as we speak about work for

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> hire. Culture is a different phenomena which cannot be limited to a

> collection of works for hire. This is why I do not believe this argument

> works when we speak about culture.

You cannot separate culture from money in any money-using society.
> Does it work when we speak about a caste of professional creative

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> people? It does, definitely. But is the caste of professional creative

> people so desirable to society? This is another question we can discuss.

As long as people have to earn money for a living, combined with the

tendency to require a huge amount of time at that, the question is then

if people being able to invest a majority of their time, effort and

skill in creative endeavors is desirable.
I'm not a fan of capitalism and even less so of long work-days, but it's

hard to even think of a better system that takes human nature into

account, to not even speak of establishing one.
--

Thorsten Wilms
thorwil's design for free software:

http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

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