Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoCopyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.
This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.
What this would do is make it so that creating isn’t profitable for people. Why write a book that people can just take for free. So creatives won’t be able to make money from creating, so they’ll do something else.
This sounds like a dystopian future where everyone is a factory worker, and people are cheering it on at the thought of “free stuff.”
This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.
If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.
Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.
This argument falls apart with the very basic concept of self publishing which many do.
It also ignores that you get a deal with that publisher and still get paid. Without IP they don’t have to pay you.
Come on people…
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 days ago
How about requiring IPs to belong to a specific person, with a set expiry of say 10 years? Corporations wouldn’t be able to own IP, only pay for the rights (for the first 10 years).