Chris Sprigman writes :
"Authors in ancient times, as well as monks and scholars in the middle ages, wrote and were paid for their writings without copyright protection. Taken as a whole . . . the evidence now available suggests that, although we should hesitate to abolish copyright protection, we should equally hesitate to extend or strengthen it."
It should be noted that in ancient times and in the middle ages literacy was a rare skill. I'd hazard a guess that writers were paid for their ability to write rather than the content of what they wrote.
I doubt that this specific argument about the success of writers in ancient times can be applied in any meaningful way to today's literate society.
I concur. The links between art and technology have been explored before.
Erik Davis' Techgnosis came to a completely different conclusion - art, technology and religion are closely linked.
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Chris Sprigman writes : "Authors in ancient times, as well as monks and scholars in the middle ages, wrote and were paid for their writings without copyright protection. Taken as a whole . . . the evidence now available suggests that, although we should hesitate to abolish copyright protection, we should equally hesitate to extend or strengthen it."
It should be noted that in ancient times and in the middle ages literacy was a rare skill. I'd hazard a guess that writers were paid for their ability to write rather than the content of what they wrote.
I doubt that this specific argument about the success of writers in ancient times can be applied in any meaningful way to today's literate society.
I concur. The links between art and technology have been explored before.
Erik Davis' Techgnosis came to a completely different conclusion - art, technology and religion are closely linked.