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Allowing people to make money from what they are good at seems to work best. Ask authors about having to cram writing into little blocks of time outside of a job that they would rather not be doing. Other motivations are fine, but people got to survive.

Looking a Linux, it seems most commits are by people getting paid.




The extremely restrictive version of copyright that we have today is not necessary to get authors paid. Far, far from it.


Other than length of time (which is way too long), how is today's copyright extremely restrictive? and how can it be made less restrictive and still remain a copyright?




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