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should anything be copyrightable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You've all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First we'd need good answers to the questions of what specifically should be funded and how much money should be spent overall. Copyright has the advantage of letting markets decide, which IMHO is a good thing in most cases (but not for things like drug patents or any research produced with public funding).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, that would be an issue. If you had a hybrid system, markets could still decide prices, at least. Once the government is the only player things get very tricky indeed.