It also allows for monopoles. Fundamentally, copyright is the right to have a monopoly on the idea, which would be fine if it wasn’t abused. Like in streaming services. Anyone who didn’t feel like watching something with subtitles and tried to filter for only dubbed shows, or speak multiple languages, knows that the service is shit on all of them and the competition is entirely based on exclusive rights on media. That is obviously not how copyright is intended. There is no reason why e.g. netflix could buy the right for xyz for abc money and Disney plus shouldn’t be able to buy the same rights for the same show for the same price. Not if you want to claim that the point of copyright is to allow the creator to profit from their work.
The printing press came into use in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s, and made it much cheaper to produce books. As there was initially no copyright law, anyone could buy or rent a press and print any text. Popular new works were immediately re-set and re-published by competitors, so printers needed a constant stream of new material. Fees paid to authors for new works were high, and significantly supplemented the incomes of many academics.
Yea, it is a “hot take”. Artists need some kind of protection for their work, too. The problem is the in parts ridiculous implementations often pushed by big corpo IP holders.
Copyright is essential to creative output. Authors and creators need to be able to profit from their work. However, having a copyright for almost 200 years is completely ridiculous. In fact I think the lifetime of the author might be a bit of a stretch in and of itself. Their descendents collecting paychecks on the back of their work for multiple generations is ridiculous and it stifles creativity by walling off whole worlds of ideas. The original copyright laws, in the US at least, were only for about 25 years.
Maybe hot take, but the US should just get rid of copyright
I’m going to take a wild shot in the dark: you don’t actually do creative work so it doesn’t matter to you.
I am not the previous commentor but I also hate the current copyright system and would argue in favor of remaking the whole system.
My work is completely IP-based.
Remaking it I’m down with. The current system favours, essentially, rich landowners at the expense of creators.
But eliminating copyright as a notion entirely is ludicrous.
It also allows for monopoles. Fundamentally, copyright is the right to have a monopoly on the idea, which would be fine if it wasn’t abused. Like in streaming services. Anyone who didn’t feel like watching something with subtitles and tried to filter for only dubbed shows, or speak multiple languages, knows that the service is shit on all of them and the competition is entirely based on exclusive rights on media. That is obviously not how copyright is intended. There is no reason why e.g. netflix could buy the right for xyz for abc money and Disney plus shouldn’t be able to buy the same rights for the same show for the same price. Not if you want to claim that the point of copyright is to allow the creator to profit from their work.
Have fun
reworking, yes… just eliminating, no
Yea, it is a “hot take”. Artists need some kind of protection for their work, too. The problem is the in parts ridiculous implementations often pushed by big corpo IP holders.
What if we just banned any company from owning copyright - it can only be held by the original creator of the work, the individual person?
What if I told you you’ve swallowed the propaganda and artists were better paid before copyright was invented?
What if I told you that without protection from some kind of state, every company that could would mulch you for fuel if given the opportunity?
I’d say you’re off topic.
Copyright is essential to creative output. Authors and creators need to be able to profit from their work. However, having a copyright for almost 200 years is completely ridiculous. In fact I think the lifetime of the author might be a bit of a stretch in and of itself. Their descendents collecting paychecks on the back of their work for multiple generations is ridiculous and it stifles creativity by walling off whole worlds of ideas. The original copyright laws, in the US at least, were only for about 25 years.
You might be interested in reading the story of copyright and why it was invented. Spoiler: it wasn’t to protect artists’ interests.