I think that really overstates what the effect of copyright elimination would be. A lot of traditional methods of monetization would be harder to make profitable, but stuff like Patreon or Kickstarter would probably still work pretty well. At worst, we&#x27;d be left with people making content in their spare time and not for profit or to make a living. <i>That would suck</i>, no doubt, but I don&#x27;t think it sucks as much as a copyright term effectively limitless in duration.<p>It also ignores what we&#x27;re missing out on <i>now</i> because of our copyright regime. Anyone should be able to make a Star Wars movie by now, or a Spiderman open-world RPG, or an epic poem detailing the later exploits of Meriadoc Brandybuck, or whatever the hell else. There is a <i>shitload</i> of derivative works we&#x27;re missing out on because of onerous copyright restrictions, even on works where everyone involved with their creation has been dead for fifty years.<p>Anyway, the main point of my previous post was not to support eliminating copyright. Mainly, it was to point out that if you support dramatically reforming copyright - twenty years and no DMCA would get nearly as much opposition from special interests as would eliminating copyright altogether - you&#x27;ve got a real uphill battle and no clear allies, despite having more in common, probably, with people who what to eliminate copyright rather than the maximalists. So I&#x27;m sympathetic to the view of &quot;fuck it, let&#x27;s just get rid of it, then&quot; even if there would be some negative consequences to that.<p>Finally, there is something to be said for taking an extreme opposite position even if it goes further than you would prefer. I think I&#x27;m more likely to see reasonable copyright happen in my lifetime if I support people who want to abolish copyright, than by trying to reason with people who want it to be limitless in scope and duration.