irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoLaws only matter if you're not rich.s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.comimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up11.64Karrow-down111cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldanticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.comchapotraphouse@hexbear.net
arrow-up11.63Karrow-down1imageLaws only matter if you're not rich.s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.comirelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square93fedilinkcross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldanticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.comchapotraphouse@hexbear.net
minus-squarekibiz0rlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 day agoCrazy idea: If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales… Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author? So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoLotR should have entered the public domain in 2023. Instead we got the Rings of Power.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoIf we had the political power to fight Disney, then we could enact a UBI so everyone can get free art all the time.
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·1 day ago out-competing them for sales… Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying “profiting from someone else’s work”.
Crazy idea:
If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…
Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?
So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.
LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.
Instead we got the Rings of Power.
If we had the political power to fight Disney, then we could enact a UBI so everyone can get free art all the time.
Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying “profiting from someone else’s work”.