Dualistic copyright

The Five Foolish Virgins show us the importance of maintaining a reserve. However, what happens when your desire to derive profit conflicts with the need to advance culture and thus society? We have the Silent War Betwixt Creativity and Production. Behold, I present you a plausible solution:

Synopsis

A fundamental belief of an omniproperous kingdom is that sharing as a social activity is equally important to profit-making as an individual right. In a free market, customers would chose to both buy and share quality products. There is no need to co-erce them into not sharing, as this has the following effects:

• prevents consumers (who do not buy, but experience the product) from becoming admirers (they instead become aliented, angry, and hence, supporters of the competition)
• prevents customers from being satsified. The need to share is part of the natural human desire. Any product which forces them to go against their natural stance cannot be satisfying them.
• prevents market penetration into the "not-yet-paying" arena. Potential customers who are too young or experiencing cash flow problems (or, even, too poor, as world prosperity has not yet become a total reality)
• forms the good habits of sharing and true quality in production (if you can't sell it, it isn't good). These habits then act as rails on which a train of exponential progression can be mounted, making the eventual products of a trans-company much higher than that of a traditional, Imperialistic company

Market considerations

Dualistic copyright must also maintain the integrity of the product. For example, a customer must know wheter they are buying the original, or a duplication which may be faulty. Hence, the following safeguards are suggested:

• copies of a work need to be clearly labelled as such
• a disclaimer noting that the origional producer has not warrantied the copy against defects, and hence is not liable
• a notice stating that the quality is not guranteed by the origional producer (i.e. it may be inferior)
• words such as Original, Authentic, and Genuine cannot be used in the sales name, markings, or marketing. Instead, Copy, Duplicate, Doppleganger, and Replacement can be used.

Example sales marks

• "Copy as you like, we'll still be the best"
• The Original [blah blah]
• Authentic [blah blah]
• Officially Sanctioned Copy (for the second tier producers)

[ this could probally end less abruptly ]

K31. 2 Dec. 2002.