Comment Re:It means nothing without Public Domain (Score 2, Interesting) 188
When was the last time anything fell into the public domain?
Yesterday -- all the works of anyone who died on June 21, 1939 became public domain then.
Comment Re:I can has source material? (Score 1) 238
Actually, most of the authors I know want to be able to write, and to feed their families, simultaneously. And that means getting paid for their work.
Even in our current model, that's no easy task, but if we weaken copyright any further, it will get harder. (Yes, that's my opinion, but I've been working on models for self-published authors and for small indepedent authors, trying to figure out how to make it work, for many years now, so it's not utterly unrelated to objective facts.)
Even in our current model, that's no easy task, but if we weaken copyright any further, it will get harder. (Yes, that's my opinion, but I've been working on models for self-published authors and for small indepedent authors, trying to figure out how to make it work, for many years now, so it's not utterly unrelated to objective facts.)
