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I may sound like a broken record but copyright needs reform. It does not fulfill its purpose and DMCA is just one symptom of many other issues that stem from t

I may sound like a broken record but copyright needs reform. It does not fulfill its purpose and DMCA is just one symptom of many other issues that stem from the steaming pile of garbage that is copyright in the 21st century. edit: typo

Lvl999Noob 3y ago
Someone needs to file DMCA notices for the big corpo stuff. Do it as a big swarm and get the whole websites down. Only then will there be actual action to reforming it.
Nifty3929 3y ago
What do you believe is the purpose of copyright law? Genuine question, I’m curious to hear your take.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
  > Genuine question, I’m curious to hear your take. In my experience, when users say this they're neither genuine nor curious but I'll bite. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri... > The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; I believe it is to promote the progress of science and useful arts and I think that the way modern copyright works runs counter to this foundational goal.
  - Nifty3929 3y ago
    "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" - Not sure if this the the parent's view of the purpose of copyright, but seems to have been what the original constitution writers had in mind. By that measure though, it seems the US has had pretty good results. We have a flourishing scientific research and arts community regularly producing amazing things. Certainly at least as good as anywhere else. And the other countries that also do well in these areas have similar copyright systems for similar reasons. I don't know of other countries with substantially different copyright laws/systems that produce similar quantity/quality of science and art. I'm not saying it's perfect, just that before we so roundly criticize something we should at least have in mind what we are trying to achieve, and some reasonable idea of an alternative that would achieve it. Do you have some ideas of how the US copyright system has failed at the stated purpose, and how something else might work better?
    - 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
      > securing for limited Times What does "limited times" mean to you? I think the copyright term has been extended for far too long and 75+ years is not "limited" in any sense of the word. It's essentially a human lifetime- meaning we won't live to see things enter the public domain that were created during our lives. My main issue with modern copyright is the egregious length of time it lasts.
  - sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
    You said it better than I ever could have!
tap-snap-or-nap 3y ago
I went through your comments and I appreciate your service of raising this as an issue.
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wraptile 3y ago
AI so close to breaking the current copyright and many of us are very excited to see this finally happen! We just need not to snooze on the replacement and not fall for copyright propaganda which is already invading social media.

Lvl999Noob 3y ago

Someone needs to file DMCA notices for the big corpo stuff. Do it as a big swarm and get the whole websites down. Only then will there be actual action to reforming it.

Nifty3929 3y ago

What do you believe is the purpose of copyright law? Genuine question, I’m curious to hear your take.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
> Genuine question, I’m curious to hear your take. In my experience, when users say this they're neither genuine nor curious but I'll bite. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri... > The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; I believe it is to promote the progress of science and useful arts and I think that the way modern copyright works runs counter to this foundational goal.
- Nifty3929 3y ago
  "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" - Not sure if this the the parent's view of the purpose of copyright, but seems to have been what the original constitution writers had in mind. By that measure though, it seems the US has had pretty good results. We have a flourishing scientific research and arts community regularly producing amazing things. Certainly at least as good as anywhere else. And the other countries that also do well in these areas have similar copyright systems for similar reasons. I don't know of other countries with substantially different copyright laws/systems that produce similar quantity/quality of science and art. I'm not saying it's perfect, just that before we so roundly criticize something we should at least have in mind what we are trying to achieve, and some reasonable idea of an alternative that would achieve it. Do you have some ideas of how the US copyright system has failed at the stated purpose, and how something else might work better?
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
    > securing for limited Times What does "limited times" mean to you? I think the copyright term has been extended for far too long and 75+ years is not "limited" in any sense of the word. It's essentially a human lifetime- meaning we won't live to see things enter the public domain that were created during our lives. My main issue with modern copyright is the egregious length of time it lasts.
- sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
  You said it better than I ever could have!

tap-snap-or-nap 3y ago

I went through your comments and I appreciate your service of raising this as an issue.

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wraptile 3y ago

AI so close to breaking the current copyright and many of us are very excited to see this finally happen! We just need not to snooze on the replacement and not fall for copyright propaganda which is already invading social media.