- Other forms of payment for creation rather than distributing copies
- Government grants
- UBI
Those are just the super obvious ones. Generally when something is considered valuable, society finds ways to pay for it. Not allowing copyright and patent parasites collect as much means there is more that can be spread to actual creators.
Or they could work on something else that is not as easily copied - there will always be others driven to create art.
That there are business models profiting from certain laws should not exclude those laws from being reconsidered. In a way, copyright is like pollution: externalizing the costs to everyone else for your own profit.
- Crowdfunding
- Other forms of payment for creation rather than distributing copies
- Government grants
- UBI
Those are just the super obvious ones. Generally when something is considered valuable, society finds ways to pay for it. Not allowing copyright and patent parasites collect as much means there is more that can be spread to actual creators.
Or they could work on something else that is not as easily copied - there will always be others driven to create art.
That there are business models profiting from certain laws should not exclude those laws from being reconsidered. In a way, copyright is like pollution: externalizing the costs to everyone else for your own profit.