My feed has a lot of noise about some old books entering the “public domain.” My books are still under copyright. If it weren’t for copyright, I could never have written them.
You can buy them, steal them, or get them for free at the library.
"I could never have written them"... in that era though.
Did you realize that today things like Wikipedia, the Linux kernel and even Mastodon could be counterexamples of that?
@post No, they really can’t. For one thing, they’re not actually books.
Without copyright, some people would still write books. Subsidized professors, vanity authors, independently wealthy people with time on their hands. My books wouldn’t exist, however.
They are projects based on #Copyleft and Free and Open Source Software licenses and are financed differently from the artificial scarcity of #Copyright.
On the other hand what you are stating with certainty, but can't prove it, is that if the law hadn't prosecuted those who reproduce the content of your books then you wouldn't have sold enough hard copies to support your work.
No offense, but what you are arguing is anachronistic and you don't seem to realize where you are: in this network we think differently.
You've already confirmed with facts that our model is better by switching from Twitter to Mastodon, you just need to take the opportunity to revise your beliefs.
@post Do you really think you need to educate me about the wonders of the tech world? Is it possible that it’s you who doesn’t understand the economics of writing books?
I’m a longtime supporter of Wikipedia and an advocate of open source models. Meanwhile, another part of the tech world—the profit-making part—is enriching itself by using and devaluing the work of creators. Don’t help them.
> Is it possible that it’s you who doesn’t understand the economics of writing books?
Then avoid rhetorical arguments like "without Copyright my books wouldn't exist" because you can't know it.
Or maybe you are saying that you wouldn't be able to compensate any lower revenue with a strategy different from artificial scarcity, like other people did?
Also there are studies that indicate that piracy actually help to sell more copies because often it triggers a domino effect in terms of notoriety. So you can't know if abolishing Copyright wouldn't help you sell more books.
On being educated on tech: well, it seems you joined the Fediverse in 2022 while it existed for 14 years now. Wirth respect, you may consider yourself a rockstar in your "tech" world but here you are perceived as very "mainstream", at least by people that have been here for a while.
But you have the chance to learn something new like everyone else.
