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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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If there was no intellectual property, what would prevent a company like Amazon to simply sell any work every published in their best monopoly marketplace without ever giving a cent to the creators? How would, for instance, the author if a novel make money?
That's not far off from what Amazon currently does.