Re: "The Elusive E-book"

From: "Bill Janssen"
>> From: "Bill Janssen"
>> >
>> > Have no fear!  This should not impede the generation of real
>> > masterpieces.  History has shown us that great artists will
>> > usually
>> > put their art before their family. :-)
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>>
>> ROTFLMAO
>>
>> There's not enough 'great' artists to fill the libraries. 
>> That
>> depends on the good ones having enough incentive.   And forthe
>> reason you state many great artists did not have families...
>
> The libraries are already full.

???   Meaning what?

>
> But great artists have largely worked in the art forms that are
> popular in their time.

And all those artists were paid;  very few - who were not exactly 
the most level of people - were total obsessives, but even they 
had to sell the odd painting to live.   And very little of the 
work was on public view or in any version of 'free domain'. 
Even the famous horses of Venice's St Marks Square came from Rome 
and had been 'made and paid' hundreds of years before.

And what do you think 'popular' means in terms of, say, the 11th 
century - or even the 16th?   There was no populace that paid for 
copies - indeed any form of copying that was not expensively done 
by hand waited on developments in print;  and, in genereal terms, 
I think it would be hard to find a start to modern understandings 
of popular until the mid nineteenth century.

And books are going away, as far as popularity
> goes.

If you mean fewer books are and will be read I think the figures 
are against you, even before you add i n the 'books' of blogs and 
other website material.

Those who write to make a living can wail and gnash their
> teeth, or pull up their socks and find a way to make a living 
> making
> something someone is actually willing to pay them for.
>
> Bill
>

Well, why?   This is on what precise basis?   You mean you 
encourage people to break copyright because you don't agree with 
it?   I know the US as a nation has had a history - indeed 
appears to retain the urge - to take what belongs to others in 
literary efforts, and the whole history of copyright needs to be 
read carefully to understand all the arguments.

But the thing that actually means copyright is likely to get 
better policed is the realisation that there is a lot of IP that 
is essential in a modern society, and because people need to be 
encouraged to produce it.   You know even novels usually have 
educative value, and I would say up-to-date education is quite a 
good thing.

Joseph


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