The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

  • blazera@kbin.social
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    2 年前

    Any author popular enough to be copied by a corporation is already well supported by fans. People prefer to support artists they like.

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      It’s not the popular authors that would be getting ripped off, it’d be the small ones. Corps would have people scouting books en masse, find one worth taking without a reputation to back themselves up, then present their own version and crush any momentum you might gain against their millions of dollars in marketing.

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        The small ones already dont make money from their work. If theyre undiscovered, they dont have any fans to buy their book. If they are discovered, they have fan support.

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      I think you severely underestimate the greed of corporations. If there was no copyright whatsoever there would nothing to stop, for example, amazon not publishing the new novel by a middling author and instead selling their own version where they take all the profit.

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        I didnt disagree with that part. Youre missing the part where theres nothing stopping fans from giving the author money instead.