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by trevyn 2038 days ago
Explanation: I believe copyright law is harmful to human creativity and should be repealed.
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coldtea 2038 days ago
Hasn't the 20th century explosion of books, music, movies, etc, coincided with copyright law?
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edumucelli 2037 days ago
It coincided also with several other things such as mass access do information, literacy increase. What you mention is definitely a spurious correlation such as money spent on pets vs death by stairs.
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Aerroon 2037 days ago
Not to mention the massive increase in population. It went from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000.
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