Copyright and Plagiarism has become one of the great evils stopping fluid exchange of ideas like we had in the old days which led to beautiful art, architecture and exchange of other cultural things.
With how much more loudly cooperations(legally people) speak in our political system it really is no wonder that the law on copyright has gotten worse and worse. For creative works I think the British system used to have works enter public domain in as few as 10 years which I think would be so much better for culture in general. Imagine 10 years after star wars has come out being able to write and sell sequels that aren't absolute corporate shit. My God the cosplay industry would be a fucking industry! As it stands you won't be able to sell a Darth Vader costume for 90 years after George Lucas death, and the rights might get tied up perpetually if they never stop using him image. Fundamentally the idea of something being a part of culture is dead. that was the idea of the law you can profit from your contributions to culture of course, but you shouldn't be able to own what has melted into the culture of our world.
10 years and that's it. we cannot allow people to rest on their laures, be individuals or coorporations. 10 years it's more than enough time to profit from it.
One of the primary purposes for copyrighting artistic stuff is to keep the artist's work intact for a while. But skill and artistry simply can't be transferred and pretending that it can squashes creativity into cookie-clutter money-printing franchises. Eh, once you've done that, why not keep the presses running for a century?
copyright is the rich mans way of retaining slaves. we banned slavery and our wages jumped because no more rediculously low wages because the job market is flooded with slaves. so they create copyright to make machines that replace workers that they are essentially enslaving. the machines only require maintenance much like slaves, but machines dont run away or rise up yet... we have come full circle. the machines are keeping our wages low because they work for free. gives us little bargaining power. banning copyright is banning slavery.
Thank you, that was highly interesting, informative and quite delightful.
Well done everybody.
That was absolutely great. Thanks to all of you.
Thank you for this convo
Interesting topic, copyright needs reform!
More like abolishing
Copyright and Plagiarism has become one of the great evils stopping fluid exchange of ideas like we had in the old days which led to beautiful art, architecture and exchange of other cultural things.
knowledge and information enclosure
Disney. The answer is almost always Disney. The big bully of the creative world.
With how much more loudly cooperations(legally people) speak in our political system it really is no wonder that the law on copyright has gotten worse and worse. For creative works I think the British system used to have works enter public domain in as few as 10 years which I think would be so much better for culture in general. Imagine 10 years after star wars has come out being able to write and sell sequels that aren't absolute corporate shit. My God the cosplay industry would be a fucking industry! As it stands you won't be able to sell a Darth Vader costume for 90 years after George Lucas death, and the rights might get tied up perpetually if they never stop using him image. Fundamentally the idea of something being a part of culture is dead. that was the idea of the law you can profit from your contributions to culture of course, but you shouldn't be able to own what has melted into the culture of our world.
I would listen to this man talk about litterally any topic.
10 years and that's it. we cannot allow people to rest on their laures, be individuals or coorporations. 10 years it's more than enough time to profit from it.
One of the primary purposes for copyrighting artistic stuff is to keep the artist's work intact for a while. But skill and artistry simply can't be transferred and pretending that it can squashes creativity into cookie-clutter money-printing franchises. Eh, once you've done that, why not keep the presses running for a century?
copyright is the rich mans way of retaining slaves. we banned slavery and our wages jumped because no more rediculously low wages because the job market is flooded with slaves. so they create copyright to make machines that replace workers that they are essentially enslaving. the machines only require maintenance much like slaves, but machines dont run away or rise up yet...
we have come full circle. the machines are keeping our wages low because they work for free. gives us little bargaining power.
banning copyright is banning slavery.