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Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights.
by happymellon 26d ago
Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights.
- ronsor 26d agoHollywood was created by ignoring (Edison) patents, not copyright. On the other hand, Disney's success is largely owed to public domain adaptations, and for a century, it did its best to shrink the public domain and expand copyright.
- happymellon 26d agoHollywood was created by ignoring copyrights. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-history-hollywood-and-copyright-law https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-05-10/research/bumpy-histor... They may have ignored patents too, but they build their work on copyright infringement.
- ronsor 26d agoI stand corrected. They apparently ignored copyright too (in retrospect, using existing screenplays made sense for the early industry).
- solatic 26d agoYour argument is non-sequitur and nihilist. America was created by colonizing Native land, so should we somehow evict hundreds of millions of people in the name of justice? (/rhetorical) Original sin is a sunk cost. If you want to make the world better, you focus on what's right for tomorrow, not what was right for a century ago.
- happymellon 26d agoSo, is Hollywood a good or bad thing? Was it is a good thing and it was created by ignoring copyrights and therefore we shouldn't protect copyrights as an absolute because other good things can be created out of it, or is it a bad thing and is using that copyright to restrict others. You can't have it both ways. My point was just that defense of Hollywood is a terrible example.
- wallst07 26d agoI don't see an argument for removing copyright being a good thing other than people wanting other's work for free, not just free to use but free to sell as their own.
- omnimus 26d agoWell whole USA education system was jump started by ignoring copyright on English books and reprinting pirated copies en masse for extremely cheap.