I believe we need some sort of copyright and patent law to incentivise both creation of new works and the publishing of those new works in public. Work won't end if such a system doesn't exist, but in order to get paid those works won't be distributed to the public. Patronage by the rich sounds great, except that the people who tend to get copies of those works are the patrons.
To me, the correct reform is to focus copyright and patents. Make them very strong, but for a very limited time. If I sing a song to my child, then my child sings that song to his child, then most of the time that probably shouldn't be something that that child would then grow up and still be owned by someone.
Our current arts are dominated by a bunch of old dead guys, showing that copyright at the moment specifically does not incentivize the creation of new works. If things continue, cultural stagnation will result, and arguably is already resulting.
To me, the correct reform is to focus copyright and patents. Make them very strong, but for a very limited time. If I sing a song to my child, then my child sings that song to his child, then most of the time that probably shouldn't be something that that child would then grow up and still be owned by someone.
Our current arts are dominated by a bunch of old dead guys, showing that copyright at the moment specifically does not incentivize the creation of new works. If things continue, cultural stagnation will result, and arguably is already resulting.
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