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> since authors and musicians are among the very few categories of workers with that privilege Don't forget software developers. All of our various licenses (a
by falcolas 6y ago
> since authors and musicians are among the very few categories of workers with that privilege
Don't forget software developers. All of our various licenses (and even our work-for-hire for various companies) relies upon copyright as well.
There's also reporters, photographers, journalists, YouTube content creators, TV, and movies, just to name a few off the top of my head.
- toyg 6y agoIn practice, very few of these actually benefit from copyright. Most do work-for-hire, which is effectively a negation or renounce to one’s IP rights; and opensource is effectively a way to do the same. The ones who can actually extract direct benefit from IP are “ the 1%”, so to speak.