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CopyrightCopyrightPosted Dec 12, 2008 19:06 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Copyright by tialaramex Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
What's the incentive? And here's you supposedly running a company. Come on dskoll, if you're not lying about your business experience then you already know lesson #1 it's not about the money. I run Roaring Penguin Software. Absolutely, starting Roaring Penguin was not initially about the money. Now that I have employees and have to meet payroll, it's quite a bit about the money. No, the incentive isn't money, the monetary compensation just keeps body and soul together. Without copyright protection, I would have no money to pay my employees. It's that simple. The way it actually works for the vast majority of actual professional photographers is that they get compensated (or least the deal is made) up front, and the amazing photo comes afterwards. Please ask a professional photographer for comments on your idea to abolish copyright. Then get back to us. And then there's musicians. Once again, it's not about the money. Please ask a professional musician for comments on your idea to abolish copyright. Then get back to us. (It's true that very, very few musicians make it big. But quite a number make a decent living selling their own CDs and music, and a vast number wouldn't get into the business if it weren't for the possibility of making it.) Please note: I'm not saying that copyright law as it stands now is perfect. All I'm saying is that throwing it out rather than trying to reform it is a bad idea.
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