[quote name='Kayden']
I really think you're missing his point.
They aren't selling Shakespeare as their work for $40 a book. They are making money from his work, but they are not making cheap knock offs or gouging prices or stealing his work. The basis of their price is to recoupe the expense of the materials and to get some profit for the actual task.
To compare this to games...
CAG could get together and start copying old PSX games. We'd sell them for like $5 to cover disks, other materials, time, effort, etc. We wouldn't be saying we made Parasite Eve 2, we'd just be offering a copy of it... ofcourse, this would require Squeenix to be dead for about 1000 years... [/quote]
I don't even remember where WS came in, but his main argument seemed to be 'he's dead, no one's profiting off his work' which isabsolutely not true. Probably not a whole lot of profit, but there is profit., that would not be realized if they weren't selling Shakespeare [or a version therof.]
I really think you're missing his point.
They aren't selling Shakespeare as their work for $40 a book. They are making money from his work, but they are not making cheap knock offs or gouging prices or stealing his work. The basis of their price is to recoupe the expense of the materials and to get some profit for the actual task.
To compare this to games...
CAG could get together and start copying old PSX games. We'd sell them for like $5 to cover disks, other materials, time, effort, etc. We wouldn't be saying we made Parasite Eve 2, we'd just be offering a copy of it... ofcourse, this would require Squeenix to be dead for about 1000 years... [/quote]
I don't even remember where WS came in, but his main argument seemed to be 'he's dead, no one's profiting off his work' which isabsolutely not true. Probably not a whole lot of profit, but there is profit., that would not be realized if they weren't selling Shakespeare [or a version therof.]