• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Copyrights should have never been extended longer than 5 years in the first place, either remove draconian copyright laws or outlaw LLM style models using copyrighted material, corpos can’t have both.

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      3 days ago

      Bro, what? Some books take more than 5 years to write and you want their authors to only have authorship of it for 5 years? Wtf. I have published books that are a dozen years old and I’m in my mid-30s. This is an insane take.

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        3 days ago

        You don’t have to stop selling when a book becomes public domain, publishers and authors sell public domain/commons books frequently, it’s just you won’t have a monopoly on the contents after the copyright expires.

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          2 days ago

          And how do you think that’s going to go when suddenly the creator needs to compete with massive corps?

          The reason copyright exists is for the same reason patents do: to protect the little guy.

          Just because corporations abuse it doesn’t mean we throw it out.

          It shouldn’t be long, but it sure should be longer than 5 years.

          Or maybe 5 years unless it’s an individual.

          Edit - think logically. You think the corps are winning now with the current state of copyright? They won’t NEED to own everything without copyright and patent laws. They’ll just be able to make profit off your work without passing any of it to the creator.

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            3 days ago

            The reason copyright exists is for the same reason patents do: to protect the little guy.

            If you actually believe this is still true, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya’.

            This hasn’t been true since the '70s, at the latest.

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              2 days ago

              So you believe there is no protection for creators at all and removing copyright will help them?

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                2 days ago

                I believe that the protection copyright provides is proportionate to how much you can spend on lawyers. So, no protection for the smallest creators, and little protection for smaller creators against larger corporations.

                I support extreme copyright reform, though I doubt it should be completely removed.

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                  1 day ago

                  Yes, my point is not removing it or reducing it to 5 years.

                  I’m not saying copyright is doing its job particularly well right now, but reducing its protection is not helping creators.

                  Copyright IS about protecting creators; we’re just still letting corporations run the show.

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                    1 day ago

                    Copyright IS about protecting creators

                    No, it isn’t. The intent WAS to “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. The reality IS that it harms society, by benefiting only the already powerful.