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2. Copyright was meant to spur innovation, when innovation was costly.

Reply to JCMach1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 06:42 AM

Dec 2011

You don't need a publisher, or a record producer, anymore.

It's a concept based on an era when making a song took more than a few minutes, and writing a story was only granted to the few.

It's all as dead as serfdom, but the kings haven't quite figured that out yet.

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