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Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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And no one can steal your work when it’s not ownable in the first place.
At the same time, everyone can profit from your work and you can't do anything about it. And big businesses, having more capital than you or I, would abuse that to their benefit like they do the current copyright system. But at least the current system gives small copyright owners some semblance of protection and an avenue to contest abuse. Not having copyright would give a creator no avenue to stop someone else abusing their hard work.
You publish a book. Disney publishes that book the next day, because they can afford to have people on payroll whose job it is to literally just scout out new books so that they can publish them themselves.
Me, a book enjoyer, is going to my local bookshop. I ask what's new, and I'm told about Disney's new book. I'm not told about your new book because after all it is the exact same book, and Disney has threatened the store to withdraw all business if they sell anybody's books but theirs.
I buy Disney's book. You get no money. You become poor and destitute.
How does a lack of copyright help you in this instance?
Why am I publishing a book? I release my creative works online for free, for anyone and everyone.
Human culture shouldn’t be paywalled off for the benefit of businesses.
Because you invested your time, effort and money to create this piece of art. Why on earth would anybody decide to create art if it was a guarantee that they'd die in a gutter?
In your anarchist utopia, maybe an artist can thrive. But we'd have to get all the way there first.
And in every step from where we are to where you want to get to, the artist is significantly worse off. You're just letting perfect be the enemy of good.
I invest my time, effort, and money into the games and stories I make and release for free online.
Why do I do this? Because creating is fun, and seeing others play or read them is inspiring.
because you can afford to because you already have a way to support yourself in society
also, not all creatives are idealists, so would need some form of incentive to put in the extra effort to release their work to the public
I appreciate that, and equally that there are really good artists who can not afford to create and survive on their work, without it. Surely there's a reasonable balance to be had, and megacorporations can be made to respect that balance (in theory), while also paying livable wages. In practice, it would require honest courts, lawyers, and politicians, so there's that.