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[Page] 27 [Quote from Patry’s book] If we want more authors and artists, we must provide them with the economic ability to be authors and artists, above the fray for market share in a winner-take-all environment. It is not copyright for copyright’s sake that matters to authors and artists, but rather a steady income. [My Comments] 
Whether the right to control the use of the works matters to artists may or may not be true. It is also irrelevant. What matters is that we should not force the authors to give up the right of control if they don’t want to, even if doing so would bring about a more steady income. Likewise, we should not subsidise authors whose works do not attract enough voluntary funding. We certainly do not want more authors and artists who take their steady income for granted regardless of their ability to convince enough people of the quality of their works.
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