copyright discourse
as a lifelong pirate and half-lifelong state-hater, ive never found much in the way of a good argument for copyright. what am i missing?
re: copyright discourse
I find the real issue with copyright is that it should have never extended past the life of the author. That's the mechanism that makes it possibly to perpetually abuse the mechanism instead of contributing back to common culture.
re: copyright discourse
"without copyright, what prevents a company from profiting off someone, especially vulnerable minorities, without giving them a cent...?"
with copyright, it's more likely that authors stop owning what they create because they made it while being paid *by* a company to produce a product.
i was a software dev for a while and that's how it worked there too. copyright didn't protect me and my code. it just gave the company which bought my laborpower (which it had the ability to do because private property forces me into a condition in which i have to sell myself, due to ongoing dispossession)
i understand the concept; "i made this, that took effort on my part, its creation was a part of me, and if someone else just steals my work to profit off of, then i've got the short end of the stick"
but i guess my point is that copyright doesn't even solve that. i mean hell, to even try to fight a company that steals from you, in a clear-cut case, you have to be able to afford a lawyer, something they know dispossessed workers can't do.
