I'm not saying that it would be better for authors without copyright. That would indeed be hard to ascertain without a/b testing.
My point was that it doesn't improve their lives, and that's much easier to check in isolation just by reading the news about the current writers strike and how the industry just ignores it until fall, expecting their savings to run out.
Really, copyright just doesn't give the content creators any meaningful power as this right is generally owned by the industry/publisher, not the authors.
My point was that it doesn't improve their lives, and that's much easier to check in isolation just by reading the news about the current writers strike and how the industry just ignores it until fall, expecting their savings to run out.
Really, copyright just doesn't give the content creators any meaningful power as this right is generally owned by the industry/publisher, not the authors.