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@tinfoilhat @waderoberts @pluralistic Copyrights and patents lead to hairy ethical and philosophical issues. All ideas are built on other ideas. If I write a detective novel, how much of that is really original?

Treating payment as a labor issue sidesteps a lot of that difficult philosophy. If you spend a year writing a detective novel, and I read it, I have gotten benefit from your labor and you deserve to be paid for it.

H/T to Cory for thinking that led me here but Im not speaking fr him.