this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2022
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"I want things for free" isn't a good argument against copyrights. Without copyrights any random asshole can sell copies without giving money to the creators.

Intellectual Property laws are an abomination but this meme is a very young child's understanding of the issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But I do want things for free tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Tbf who doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You heard of back alley ubuntu cds? Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm more concerned with protecting smaller artists and creators from big businesses that leech ideas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

See, copyright is a good thing, public domain is very easy to exploit.

I think we should build upon copyright by using permissive licenses like gpl, creative commons, etc

We have to slowly try and convince people to use these, and use them ourselves(which I do a lot)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

What we need instead of copyright law is anti-plagiarism law. Make it a crime to claim you created something you didn't. With current copyright laws plagiarism is legal and politicians copy whole PDF theses and don't get punished at all.

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