That is scary, and at the same time funny in that "dead-on Daily Show gag" kind of way.
The dying craft example is just boggling. To get more people to do X, let's create prohibitions against doing X! Totally cart-before-the-horse, it's ingrained as you say, and people don't realize that copyright is, at best, an ad hoc system for artists to get paid, but if you collapse the logic into seeing copyright as the reward in itself, I guess it's in some ways cheaper (and less empowering to most artists, those pesky weirdos) than paying a living wage...
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Date: 2012-05-17 03:40 pm (UTC)The dying craft example is just boggling. To get more people to do X, let's create prohibitions against doing X! Totally cart-before-the-horse, it's ingrained as you say, and people don't realize that copyright is, at best, an ad hoc system for artists to get paid, but if you collapse the logic into seeing copyright as the reward in itself, I guess it's in some ways cheaper (and less empowering to most artists, those pesky weirdos) than paying a living wage...