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Villa: Pushing back against licensing and the permission cultureVilla: Pushing back against licensing and the permission culturePosted Jan 31, 2013 21:19 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Villa: Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture by tjc Parent article: Villa: Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture
Even if 90% continue, the 10% who don't will have a negative effect on society. Not even close. Society does not benefit from e.g. books which were created once but then made unavailable. And over half if books ever created (by some estimates 70%) fall into this category (because they are not old enough to be in public domain but old enough for the question of who owns the copyright to be unanswerable). This percentage is much higher with software (see abandonware). This means that if only 10% stop producing the negative effect will be more then compensated by access to that abandonware.
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