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submitted 1 year ago by Mahlzeit@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement.

So I would like to know what specific changes you (especially Americans) want to see from lawmakers.

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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your reply, sorry if I came off aggressive in my initial response.

For me I'm as hardcore anti-intellectual property as it gets. I think the very concept of IP is nonsense. And I don't mean nonsense like it is stupid or silly or I don't agree with the laws, I mean literally logically contradictory.

I view laws against copyright/IP infringement the same way I would view a law against poaching unicorns.

Despite the propaganda, IP law almost always protects giant corporations, not the "little guy." It's used to create and maintain multi-billion dollar IP portfolio monopolies. It supresses creativity and literally kills people in the case of pharma companies and their ridiculous drug patents.

I would love at a minimum for copyright to have a hard limit no matter the conditions. Like for all creative works, 20 year hard limit. After that, no matter what, it enters public domain forever. There are a million issues to work out, but not being able to hold IP for literally a century in some cases would be something.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Copyright should probably not be given to the publisher unless the publisher is the artist.

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