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You’re willing to eliminate the entire concept of intellectual property for a possibility something might be a technological advancement? If creators are the reason you believe this advancement can be achieved, are you willing to provide them the majority of the profits?

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That's an absolutely good tradeoff. There's no longer any need for copyright. Patents should go next. Only trademarks can stay.

> There's no longer any need for copyright

So you assign zero value to the process of creation?

Zero value to the process of production?

So people who write and produce books, shows and films should all do what? Give up their craft?

Creation isn't special, or constrained in number.

Process of creation itself is gratifying and valuable to those who will pursue it. No reason to additionally reward it.

Lamp lighters had to give up their craft I suppose and made way to a better world.

> Creation isn't special, or constrained in number. > Process of creation itself is gratifying and valuable to those who will pursue it.

spoken like someone who has never made anything in the real world

Holding a boom mic in the air is not gratifying and valuable to anyone who has to do it.

The fruits of your labour are not your labour.

Bullshit. Read up and understand the history of these things and their benefits to society. There is a reason they were created in the first place. Over a very long time. With lots of thoughts into the tradeoff/benefits to society. That Disney fucked with it does not make the original tradeoff not a benefit to society.

The fact that you don't actually call out the specific benefit is telling. We're in a world of plenty and don't need copyright to have those benefits for our fellow humans.

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