• ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That would make it harder for creative people to produce things and make money from it. Abolishing copyright isn’t the answer. We still need a system like that.

    A shorter period of copyright, would encourage more new content. As creative industries could no longer rely on old outdated work.

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      10 months ago

      That would make it harder for creative people to produce things and make money from it

      no, it would make it easier.

      it would be harder to stop people from making money on creative works.

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        10 months ago

        You write a book, people start buying that book. Someone copies that book and sells it for 10 pence on Amazon. You get nothing from each sale.

        You write a song and people want to listen to it. Spotify serves them that song, you get nothing because you have no right to own your copy.

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          10 months ago

          That’s how free/libre and open-source software has worked since forever. And it works just fine. There is no need for an exclusive right to commercialise a product in order for it to be produced. You are basically parroting a decades old lie from Hollywood.