Honestly at this point, looking at what the world is like for content creators, I'd be willing to entertain that argument It's a bad idea on practical grounds, just like it's a bad idea for a store to insist on a strip and cavity search of all patrons exiting the building
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But if I *want* to make access to my content as restrictive as possible I have the right to In practical terms this is why you're seeing an uptick of exclusive live shows with really onerous "NO PHONES" policies
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Are we talking about moral rights or legal rights In terms of legal rights, the existence of lending libraries for physical books is pretty set in stone and it's a wild fantasy to think anyone will ever have the power to get them banned, ESPECIALLY print publishing
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Honestly speaking from a purely amoral perspective and looking at what's actually happening with warring interest groups, consumer demand is likely to prevail over workers trying to protect their bottom line as it always does - that's the trend of the past 20 years
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I'm not defending primarily charismatic indie creators Chuck Wendig may work doing Star Wars fanfic for a corporation, just as yellow cab drivers work for a corporation, but it's still work and he has the right to try to prop up his negotiating power in the marketplace
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It's the REALLY charismatic indie creators who manage to flourish in the Brave New World, being able to get rich on Kickstarter or Patreon depends a lot more on being a good self-marketer than doing the work
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It's the "mid-tier" content creators who basically don't exist anymore with the hollowing out of publishing It used to be relatively common to crank out passable genre fiction as a middle class job, that's rapidly dying out
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Anyway, comparing the situation to big pharma drug patents is pretty offensive on a fundamental level Nobody is dying of cancer because they didn't have access to recently written science fiction novels
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