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Already copyright laws do not offer protection for writers (see the current [screen]writers strike [1]), visual artists, musicians (see the recent Taylor Swift

Already copyright laws do not offer protection for writers (see the current [screen]writers strike [1]), visual artists, musicians (see the recent Taylor Swift re-recording debacle [2]), not to speak of the "lower" arts, crafts & merch, where colossi such as H&M and Zara steal art, designs, concepts regularly [3] (not to even mention the sweatshops). Copyright laws, or in fact generally laws, are for the rich and powerful, perhaps even for the corporations, not the individuals, since they paid for them to be so [4], it's just us, individually, the hoi polloi, who are still trapped into believing that there is rhyme or reason to our current system. The joke is that while our system extolls itself as the most efficient system in history, based on competition of equals and free markets (two contradictions in terms contradicting each other), it harbours terrible inefficiencies such as the copyright laws, the patent system, and so on. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writers_Guild_of_America_... [2] https://www.vox.com/culture/22278732/taylor-swift-re-recording-speak-now-enchanted-mine-master-rights-scooter-braun https://www.vox.com/culture/22278732/taylor-swift-re-recordi... [3] https://www.boredpanda.com/zara-stealing-designs-copying-independent-artists-tuesday-bassen https://www.boredpanda.com/zara-stealing-designs-copying-ind... [4] The Power Corporations Have In Changing Laws, https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983925056/the-power-corporations-have-in-changing-laws https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983925056/the-power-corporati...

notahacker 3y ago
Ask someone on the screenwriters' strike if they'd rather copyright was eliminated so they didn't get paid at all...
- ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
  Most of them already don't get paid, hence the strike [1]. [1] "Writers say they want a living wage as streaming devalues their work even as it demands more of their time.", https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/writers-strike-2023-explained-1234831299 https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/writers-strike-2023-...
  - notahacker 3y ago
    No, they get paid but would, understandably, like to be paid more. Something which would be even less likely to happen if copyright was abolished so anybody could use their output at zero cost.
    - ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
      From what I understand they are not getting paid since the paradigm changed: "the way it's changed is most of these streaming services focus on a metric called ARPU, which is the average revenue per user", "the main difference is it used to be that the incentives were linked. So the writers and the studios were trying to get people to watch the show and get high ratings and get people to pay attention to the show. Today, the streamer is trying to get people to subscribe to their service, so they're looking more at the aggregate of the service versus the individual show." [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173612099/why-writers-are-having-a-hard-time-earning-a-living-in-the-streaming-econom https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173612099/why-writers-are-ha...
      - notahacker 3y ago
        I'm not sure quite why you're continuing to post articles explaining why writers get paid less as streaming services' revenue is less linked to the ratings of new shows as an argument in favour of marking down the value of the intellectual property they create to zero... My original point still stands. Ask the writers. They're not getting paid nothing yet, and they won't approve of your passionate advocacy of a future in which they are paid nothing.
        ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
        I'm not quite sure why you are not understanding that with the streaming model of business the writers, and even the actors, no longer get residuals, here is another article [1]: yes, they get paid nothing. I am advocating for the abolishment of copyright laws, not for not being rewarded for one's work. [1] Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney revealed in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter that "They don’t pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals.", https://nofilmschool.com/streaming-services-residuals https://nofilmschool.com/streaming-services-residuals

notahacker 3y ago

Ask someone on the screenwriters' strike if they'd rather copyright was eliminated so they didn't get paid at all...

ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Most of them already don't get paid, hence the strike [1]. [1] "Writers say they want a living wage as streaming devalues their work even as it demands more of their time.", https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/writers-strike-2023-explained-1234831299 https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/writers-strike-2023-...
- notahacker 3y ago
  No, they get paid but would, understandably, like to be paid more. Something which would be even less likely to happen if copyright was abolished so anybody could use their output at zero cost.
  - ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
    From what I understand they are not getting paid since the paradigm changed: "the way it's changed is most of these streaming services focus on a metric called ARPU, which is the average revenue per user", "the main difference is it used to be that the incentives were linked. So the writers and the studios were trying to get people to watch the show and get high ratings and get people to pay attention to the show. Today, the streamer is trying to get people to subscribe to their service, so they're looking more at the aggregate of the service versus the individual show." [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173612099/why-writers-are-having-a-hard-time-earning-a-living-in-the-streaming-econom https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173612099/why-writers-are-ha...
    - notahacker 3y ago
      I'm not sure quite why you're continuing to post articles explaining why writers get paid less as streaming services' revenue is less linked to the ratings of new shows as an argument in favour of marking down the value of the intellectual property they create to zero... My original point still stands. Ask the writers. They're not getting paid nothing yet, and they won't approve of your passionate advocacy of a future in which they are paid nothing.
      - ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
        I'm not quite sure why you are not understanding that with the streaming model of business the writers, and even the actors, no longer get residuals, here is another article [1]: yes, they get paid nothing. I am advocating for the abolishment of copyright laws, not for not being rewarded for one's work. [1] Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney revealed in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter that "They don’t pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals.", https://nofilmschool.com/streaming-services-residuals https://nofilmschool.com/streaming-services-residuals