The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    We aren’t talking about plagiarism, the friend would be telling the story about you still.

    Spoken word narratives are such an integral part of culture, imagine if your grandpa told you to never repeat any of the stories of his childhood because “he owns the copywrite”. Insane. That’s what you are suggesting.

    Ideas are not objects. Having good ideas shared incurs no loss to anybody, except imagined “lost potential value”.

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      11 months ago

      I’m saying that those who create are entitled to the value of what they create. If a company asks to look iver some of your work before hiring you, says that they aren’t interested, and then you see them using that work afterwards i doubt you would be saying “well, information should be free”.

      If you want to write stories, draw pictures, make movies or webshows and distribute then for free ti everyone, then that’s a noble initiative, but creatives depend on what they create for their livelyhood.

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        11 months ago

        saying that those who create are entitled to the value of what they create.

        Here I was thinking we all deserved a giant meteor.

        The publisher example is one of a difference in power and you’re saying that IP is there to protect the author. Except this whole video is about how that doesn’t happen anymore. The law is written and litigated by those with power.

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        11 months ago

        That happens already.

        If the situation is reversed, the hammer comes down on the independent artist.

        We need stronger worker and consumer protections. Copywrite is a shit solution.