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Copyright is fine in principle. Patents are fine too. The difference is that one lasts nearly a century, the other just twenty years. Originally copyright and
by pavlov 3y ago
Copyright is fine in principle. Patents are fine too. The difference is that one lasts nearly a century, the other just twenty years.
Originally copyright and patent terms were effectively identical. Western societies allowed them to slowly diverge, like proverbial frogs being boiled. How could we undo this mistake?
- anigbrowl 3y agoBlackmail a majority of legislators. Bribing them is no good because you can be outspent. Appealing to logic is also no good because legislators rely on emotional demagoguery to get elected. Persuading the public is no good because a) collective action problems are hard, b) abstract issues are very hard to get traction around, c) many people are jealous of artists and derive irrational satisfaction from annoying them.
- mrguyorama 3y agoPurchase disney. They are essentially entirely responsible for current copyright nonsense.