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Sacha wrote:

But your 144 fuchsias would take 144 royalty payments away from the original
breeder ...

No, they wouldn't. Perhaps a dozen. That myth is quoted by the current
entertainment monopolists, to try to deprive the public of rights.

Note that I am not opposing PBRs in principle or most practice though,
as I said, I have seen them abused.

To the best of my knowledge, every single plant sold of Nemesia 'Bluebird'
brings Ray a payment, so every single one of those hypothetical Fuchsias
would be doing the same, I should think. Naturally, some part of that goes
to others involved in the process but each plant is worth something to its
breeder.

You are assuming that, of 144 people who buy an unnamed variety of
Nemesia at a charity sale, all 144 would buy a named plant of Nemesia
'Bluebird' from somewhere else if the charity sale did not sell any
Nemesias. Sorry, but it ain't so.

I am happy to agree that people shouldn't propagate such varieties
improperly, but not that the royalty holder loses one fee for every
such plant so propagated.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.