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An overwhelming majority of "useful" copyrighted works is owned by Big Media. By useful I mean works that provide large value to society, compared to say this c
by abdullahkhalids 7y ago
An overwhelming majority of "useful" copyrighted works is owned by Big Media. By useful I mean works that provide large value to society, compared to say this comment, which is technically copyrighted, but fairly low value to society. Big Media are the ones who have been influencing lawmakers to extend copyright terms. They are never going to voluntarily give up their own copyrights.
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoGood point. But "fairy low value" doesn't equal to "completely useless", an example would be the photographs on Flickr, it was the largest collection of photos available under the CC BY license, and at least Wikipedia was one of the largest project being benefited from it. Also, I could publish my work under the Sunset License before I permanently license a copyrighted book/research paper to a Big Publisher, because the license is non-revocable, the license can effectively prevent the publisher from locking it up forever, without some possible objections when using CC-BY or CC-0.