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covofeee | 1 year ago

Copyright is your friend.

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horsawlarway|1 year ago

No.

There is a theoretical implementation of copyright that is your friend.

The realities of the laws as implemented today are abusive and hostile.

palata|1 year ago

Does it mean that they should be removed entirely? Surely we can agree on the fact that I should not be allowed to make a copy of a book, put my name on it instead of the real author, and sell it? Or even claim that I wrote it and put it on my resume?

bodiekane|1 year ago

Copyright is the friend to the 1% and the enemy of the everyone else.

(Of course, I'm using "the 1%" rhetorically, it's really more like 0.01%)

As a society, we all clearly benefit from fair use far more than we benefit from members of the copyright cartel buying another mansion or private jet.