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Sounds like Disney has done for movies, stories, characters and cartoons what Facebook is doing for chat and social communication -- Putting them behind an aggr

Sounds like Disney has done for movies, stories, characters and cartoons what Facebook is doing for chat and social communication -- Putting them behind an aggressively-defended corporate wall and making money by using them as advertising vectors? What I'm trying to suggest here is that there is a parallel between the (Hollywood-based) Disney machine that has employed, enriched, and frustrated storytellers over the years, and the (Silicon Valley-based) machines that are now employing software pros.

freeflight 9y ago
Facebook couldn't do what they do if Disney didn't "clear the way for them", so to speak. Imho it's all part of the same trend where "intangible goods" have become more valuable than actual tangible resources, which seems how we spend our way out of the 2008 recession. At this point it's pretty much impossible to be a fan of something "pop culture" and not having to pay the IP tax to Disney, or some other massive corporation, for owning that IP. On one hand, generating money out of writing code or painting a character sure is a good option to have, creative arts need to be properly compensated. But with how copyright law has changed over these past decades this can sometimes have really bad outcomes and as time progresses it feels like more and more of these "intangible goods" are being monopolized. Happy birthday songs and Christmas songs being "copyrighted", sending out cease-and-desist orders to people singing them, sounds like a bad joke of a dystopian future, but that's where we already have been for quite a while now and it's only getting worse. And it's not like we'd have to convince just one government to reform copyright, at this point we would rather have to convince mega corporations likey Disney because it's them who actually hold the influence to change legislation for literally half of the planet.

freeflight 9y ago

Facebook couldn't do what they do if Disney didn't "clear the way for them", so to speak. Imho it's all part of the same trend where "intangible goods" have become more valuable than actual tangible resources, which seems how we spend our way out of the 2008 recession. At this point it's pretty much impossible to be a fan of something "pop culture" and not having to pay the IP tax to Disney, or some other massive corporation, for owning that IP. On one hand, generating money out of writing code or painting a character sure is a good option to have, creative arts need to be properly compensated. But with how copyright law has changed over these past decades this can sometimes have really bad outcomes and as time progresses it feels like more and more of these "intangible goods" are being monopolized. Happy birthday songs and Christmas songs being "copyrighted", sending out cease-and-desist orders to people singing them, sounds like a bad joke of a dystopian future, but that's where we already have been for quite a while now and it's only getting worse. And it's not like we'd have to convince just one government to reform copyright, at this point we would rather have to convince mega corporations likey Disney because it's them who actually hold the influence to change legislation for literally half of the planet.