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>There are other ways to meet that goal.

And yet, judging from international laws, all lawmakers worldwide seem agree that a variation of the current method is the preferred one.

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There are plenty of laws that give federal grants to artists and scholarships to graduate students.

Those are supplementary laws -- since all country also have similar copyright laws too.

And 99% of those you mention are for avant garde, classical, jazz, traditional and other endangered species of art.

Most lawmakers worldwide have shitty ideas on most topics.

And most individual people, especially those involved in an industry only as consumers, have naive and ridiculous ideas of what would work.

It's almost like, oh I don't know, a balance of consumer and business interests and input would lead to more acceptable outcomes for everyone, when drawing up policy, as opposed to shutting one side out of the discussion completely.

Weird, eh?

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