alt Hacker NewsThe individuals who get rich from copyright are a rarity.
Most mid-list authors make very little from copyright. A lot of the "authors" who make a lot of money from writing are celebs who slap their name on a ghost written work.
> Which was always better for them than let Twitch take 70% and be a sharecropper.
Copyright predates Twitch or giant corporations and was designed to protect the profits of the publishers from the start.
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lstodd • yesterday at 11:19 AM
This is so, but note that publishers were the "giant corporations" of the time.
In this nothing changed. Authors never were and still are not the point of copyright/IP.
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Giant corporations started in the early 1600s and back then they had gunboats :-p