Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 22:08: > > An author could only hope being paid when ordered a work. The only > > real way to earn a living as an author was to be under the > > protection of a patron. > Ok, but now we have contracts and laws governing them. :-) If we sign > a contract that you write something for me and in return I give you > money, then you have very effective ways to make sure I do indeed pay > that money once you've written it.
Be it with contracts or a patron of the arts, there's no difference. Without copyright, you're paid once, and then you have no rights on the diffusion of your work. I agree that ideas should always be free. Indeed, society globally agrees with that, and patents and copyrights are exceptions. This is chy they have a duration. Thoses exceptions could not last forever. I think this is a very good compromise, as far as copyright is concerned. I'm less sure about patents. Exceptionnaly, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A
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