[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Copyright will go away or at least become unenforceable.

I agree, at least so far as journalism is concerned. Because what has been happening is that the AP monopoly has produced an opinion publicity monopoly which is exactly counter to the intent of the First Amendment, and explains the success of socialist politicians who pander to that monopoly. Books, maybe not.

[Milhous]

My own Christian morality compels me to actually pay for works of art. OTOH secularism's lack of such compelling morality serves as its greatest selling point. Heathenism also provides no real moral objection to America's neo-Greco-Roman slavery manifesting itself as exploitation of immigrants, both legal and illegal.

[Landru]

I seriously doubt there's one person within AP (or Bloomberg, Reuters et al ad naueum) from the very top to very bottom to include all they "serve" who understands so much as a single word you quoted/wrote, above.
Not one.

They (AP) don't *need* to understand anything contrary to what it is they're trying to do. Do they?
Would we, given similar circumstances?
Of course not.
We'd do what they're doing: Ignoring the critic(s) and forging ahead.

The buggers have been defined every way from Sunday, my friend.
Now that they & their objectives should be clearly understood, even if by default of merely seeing the direction they move?
We stand ready to proceed to the next level: finish the job of detoothing the buggers.

The "free market" --as we knew it-- looks to have taken care of much of the heavy lifting, for reason or reasons known to the watching.
However the AP et al silently moves to circumvent the free market and that's where the battle ground is, right now.

-BTTT-