[LAD] RAUL?

[Thorsten Wilms]

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


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