09-14-2024, 05:03 PM
I guess I don't really care about protecting the "vehicle" of authors'/artists' dissemination as much as the thing which is supposedly meant to be disseminated.
I get the commercial "protection" angle. (Although I question it's sincerity as a moral justification.)
I'm just an old-fashioned thinker who values the idea of people reading more, and having more access...
But this is not a world of my design... and what I value is for my perspective, not the perspective of professional vanity or commercial exploitability...
Artistic and technical creators in our collective culture should be encouraged and supported... but without sharing the actual creation, it's all an empty exercise reduced to dollars and cents.
But that's just me.
I get the commercial "protection" angle. (Although I question it's sincerity as a moral justification.)
I'm just an old-fashioned thinker who values the idea of people reading more, and having more access...
But this is not a world of my design... and what I value is for my perspective, not the perspective of professional vanity or commercial exploitability...
Artistic and technical creators in our collective culture should be encouraged and supported... but without sharing the actual creation, it's all an empty exercise reduced to dollars and cents.
But that's just me.
