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> enclosing the value created inside proprietary, investor-backed systems What do you think copyright does. Human culture is owned by humanity, not Disney or t
by ralph84 5mo ago
> enclosing the value created inside proprietary, investor-backed systems
What do you think copyright does. Human culture is owned by humanity, not Disney or the New York Times.
- estearum 5mo agoIt creates an incentive to create new things and share it with the world, duh. Do you ask the same question about why we patent drugs?
- ralph84 5mo agoWalt Disney died 60 years ago. We don't need to incentivize him to do anything.
- estearum 5mo agoAre you arguing that copyright lasts too long or that copyright shouldn't exist? Your prior comment, "human culture is owned by humanity", sure sounds like the latter.
- nl 5mo agoI think copyright is a valid incentive. I don't think reading books (whether by human or by machine) is copyright infringement. I think that attaining books that are still under copyright by downloading a pirate torrent is wrong. I think a machine reading those books by borrowing them from a public library is fine. I think copyright holders restricting their books from being in a public library is just as wrong as downloading a pirated copy. I think deliberately reproducing a copyrighted book is wrong, but the infringement is by the person who did that, not by the person who built a tool which can incidentally be used for that.