• firadin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy. An original and a copy of a digital artwork are identical.

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      Not when work takes a large amount of time to produce the original, and very little work to produce a copy

      if you’ve never seen someone sell their own creative work without the trappings of a government enforced monopoly, you should look into how any author or artist got paid before the statute of anne.