Should Copyright Be Abolished?

“There’s an old joke in which a man asks a woman if she’d sleep
with him for a million dollars. After some thought, she says yes.
Then he asks her if she’d sleep with him for 50 dollars. She says,
‘of course not! What kind of girl do you think I am?’

“‘We’ve established what kind of girl you are,’ he replies. ‘Now
we’re just haggling over the price.’

“When it comes to a lot of the more vocal proponents of
abolishing copyright, that punch line applies…”

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