From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 20:01:42 BST
Hi Pi
I'd like to add to this:
The fact that some ideas cost companies a great deal of cost in terms of research and development,
so that they would not do the research if not protected by copyright.
Some individual inventors of ideas sacrifice many years in low pay to work on their pet project,
taking the cost now to get the benefit later -dependent on copyright.
Copyright rewards people when they have found the time and space to allow DQ to emerge and
produce/create some new SQ ideas.
Copyright is necessary because of inequality. It helps to maintain it, it links risk and reward, it
rewards what may be the arbitrary gift of DQ and makes out of the recipient another member of one
end of the inequality divide.
The linking of reward to DQ/creativity is to make something sacred (that should be a gift) into
something profane (a justification of inequality).
People have a bad attitude to DQ (bringing something new into being) when they hope that it will
help them move from one end of inequality to the other (poor to rich).
I am trying to put on the table the relevant issues, I agree more with the end ones.
I hope that broadens the topic out a bit.
regards
David M
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