Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it [Updated]
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One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, …

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    As an artist, I like having the ability to tell people they cannot host my commercial works, cannot claim my own writing or characters for themselves, cannot reproduce them for profit, need my permission to sell them.

    I think copyright abuse is rampant and favors corporate entities far too much in most countries, but I think the solution is reform not destruction of the system.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Do you like suing people in a court of law to enforce these rights?

      What if in a world of billions of people someone makes stories or characters similar to yours. Should you sue them? What if they sue you and have better lawyers and more money. Are you prepared to go to court?

      I think you are experiencing a sunken cost fallacy. Unless you have the time and money to enforce copyright then it will never work for you, only against you.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I like having the options to sue in a court of law to enforce these rights a lot more than not having rights at all.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Keep saying that when a big corporation takes your work for theirs and then sues you.

          We have already past the tipping point where content creators are now paying more for their work to be heard then getting paid for their work.

          Corporations are controlling our very culture with the framework that makes you feel like you have rights. There is a major disconnect here.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            We have already past the tipping point where content creators are now paying more for their work to be heard then getting paid for their work.

            The gatekeeping of modern social media plus the data harvesting of LLM is strangling independent ownership, without a doubt.

            It’s a shame folks on Lemmy can’t see it. But then Reddit is the Ur-example of big business robbing people of their work product.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Well, I guess we’ll never see any developments in mathematics or theoretical physics. No copyright there except journals paywalling our work and paying us absolutely nothing. Oh wait…

    We live in an era of copyblight - it’s an era we won’t leave until the caveman mentality of “this mine, no touch or I hurt” fizzles out. Give it another 5000 or so years maybe?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The thing that will bring down the copywrite system will be countries without copywrite making enforcement impossible.