Alternative to copyright involving entrepreneurial risk

Economics Economics Questions
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When it comes to IP, are there any known business models for consumers to pay the laborers, through an entrepreneurial risk taker?

For example, can someone commissioning me to write some form of software for them turn a profit from the software’s mass-consumer value, without using exclusive privileges granted by copyright to diminish competitive distributors who didn’t bear my labor costs?

I know there are the lead-time and secondary marketing of tangible goods arguments. What if the lead time means nothing and there are no secondary tangible goods?

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I must admit that I don’t truly comprehend what you were asking. What is it that you are exactly asking about? Are you talking about an alternative to do what copyright currently does that doesn’t give its holder a monopoly of sorts, are you speaking of completly abandoning copyright, or something completly else? Please do rephrase.