The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Unfortunately, corporations are really the closest proxy we really have.

    [citation needed]

    The closest thing we have to “representation proxy to a community of people who helped author a thing” is an author’s guild, for example. And things like the Writers’ Guild already exist, I’m sure there’s a Drawers’ Guild too. Not as close, but more solidly defined, would be a union, oh guess what? We have those, too.

    In comparison, a “corporation” has a whole lotta fat.

    Corporations don’t need you to shill for them.

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      2 years ago

      I think my point is getting lost in the one pro-corporate part of it…the corporation is responsible for nearly all of the risk, and that investment is what ultimately creates the content. They absolutely do deserve some stake in its IP, just not necessarily nearly as much as they currently have.

      This is why I love new media. Low enough startup costs that small individuals and small groups could easily creat and own their own content and IP. It’s really the big investments that complicate everything.

      It used to be necessary to sell your soul to the establishment to get your content in front of a large audience, but it’s not anymore.

      And don’t get me wrong, it’s only in this specific context and conversation that I would call Google the good guys, or at least the lesser of two evils. Obviously context matters.