copyright is bad but absence of copyright is also not great. it should be replaced with a far more restricted version that only applies to art, with a massively shortened duration (10~15 years seem about right, from when you see it in your childhood to your mid 20s when you can start to produce meaningful works), with fair use baked in alongside new protections for non-commercial use and establishing faster and significantly cheaper mechanisms to settle disputes. the legislation should allow for evolution of culture and rapid dissemination of information while still retaining some rights for small artists.
will that work out? maybe but we haven’t even tried, and it’ll certainly be better than our public domain being frozen to basically 1930s while big media conglomerates merge and continue to hoard IPs, essentially holding our entire culture hostage. something has to give. unfortunately it’s not a high priority issue and media lobby pockets are deep, so it’s not gonna happen.
EDIT: of course the whole point of copyright is to protect the right holder’s profits to provide “incentive” for people to create original works. outside of a capitalist system such system of ownership is just bad, although some measure to stop misattribution might be useful.
copyright is bad but absence of copyright is also not great. it should be replaced with a far more restricted version that only applies to art, with a massively shortened duration (10~15 years seem about right, from when you see it in your childhood to your mid 20s when you can start to produce meaningful works), with fair use baked in alongside new protections for non-commercial use and establishing faster and significantly cheaper mechanisms to settle disputes. the legislation should allow for evolution of culture and rapid dissemination of information while still retaining some rights for small artists.
will that work out? maybe but we haven’t even tried, and it’ll certainly be better than our public domain being frozen to basically 1930s while big media conglomerates merge and continue to hoard IPs, essentially holding our entire culture hostage. something has to give. unfortunately it’s not a high priority issue and media lobby pockets are deep, so it’s not gonna happen.
EDIT: of course the whole point of copyright is to protect the right holder’s profits to provide “incentive” for people to create original works. outside of a capitalist system such system of ownership is just bad, although some measure to stop misattribution might be useful.