with or without copyright, ideas will always be subject to iterative changes and remixes, or outright repetition, that's just how culture works
I think that ideas should be free and that artists should be compensated for their labor and I don't think that these ideas are wildly incompatible or impossible
Copyright as it exists today is increasingly just a bludgeon for huge companies to keep wealth and power centralized in their hands, and artists under today's system are hardly compensated for their own work anyways, after Google, spotify, disney and so on have taken a portion off the top.
Intellectual Property has merely led to the foundation of Intellectual landlords and monopolies and that's completely scuffed. Especially since workers, artists and the like, often are just getting scraps compared to the CEOs and board members of whatever company is stealing their labor. Facebook literally claims, for instance, that anything you post on their site is THEIR intellectual property, their product. This idea does not protect your ideas, it supresses them, and it's working as intended
It rocks so hard that ideas are a commodity, nothing could ever go wrong with this idea
what do you mean Disney owns 75% of our culture
@starwall it's especially strange when you consider copyright isn't even well specified for that task
@starwall like, it's designed for the benefit of publishers
if it happens to help creators, that's a rare unintentional side effect
@starwall like, even if I thought the abstract idea of IP was good, I still wouldn't like copyright
@starwall this is especially true in medicine. Insulin is so expensive bc they keep making minor tweaks and then calling it a new product that needs patenting, and thats why we dont have "generic" insulin yet. Same with fucking epi-pens
Copyright doesn’t cover ideas at all. It only covers implementation.
One of our main gripes with copyright is the economical argument. How it’s the equivalent of grain burning, it’s sabotage, artificial scarcity, destruction of something that could be a beneficial good that could bring joy and prosperity to many.
@Sandra right! It doesn't even come close to its proponents supposed arguments for why it should exist in the first place
Copyright doesn't serve to force innovation or even incentivize it, in fact all it really does is stifle it