• Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago
    1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

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    1. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

    Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.