[lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kind of labor producesintellectualproperty?

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 16:03:59 PDT 2011


On 9/7/2011 6:47 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:


> We're fortunate that Doug writes, but in no way has he been supported
> by this dumb system. He has succeeded despite it, not because of it.

I don't get this. Doug earns an income stream from LBO by sending people PDFs in exchange for $x. If he didn't have copyright then some dufus somewhere could just put the PDF on a free website and presumably far fewer people would subscribe to LBO. Right? Or am I wrong about this?

SA



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