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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
So...you're perfectly fine with the notion that after someone spends tens of thousands of dollars and years gaining education/experience/know-how in photography, renting/buying studio space, purchasing wardrobe, camera/lighting/computer gear, hiring models, make-up artist, registering their business...then spending countless hours shooting those models, editing the pics, creating a website (with all its associated costs and labour) - and then someone comes along, purchases copies of the pics (or outright steals them without paying a dime) - tosses them up on a shitty little website and generates revenue from them.
If you agree with the logic(sic) of Dean Baker - you're just as fucked in the head as he is. No surprise that crap like this is sought-out and diseminated by Al-Jazeera.
Nonsense like this is usually written by those who produce or create nothing original themselves.
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and yet car manufacturers spend billions of dollars developing the technology that goes into a car
and yet people can buy a fleet of cars and rent them out
in fact their are entire business based on that model
Why do you believe you should have a right to stop people from doing the same thing with your content.
look if you truly believe that right is legitimate then give it to every single property producer
make using a house made by a bricklayer without their licence the same penalty of using content without a licence
do the same with the car you drive etc..