Martin Dougiamas on Nostr: Copyright law sucks and mostly just serves large corporations and lawyers. Instead of ...
Copyright law sucks and mostly just serves large corporations and lawyers. Instead of wasting effort trying to prolong and complexify the virus of copyright law into the future we should accept that pretty much any use of any published electronic content is fair use (except outright impersonation). It’s just electrons in the end. We would all be better off building more ways to support artists and creators (eg UBI).
From the article: “As Bellos and Montagu repeatedly point out, all new creations derive from existing creations. In our head when we write a poem or make a movie are all the poems we have read or movies we have seen. Philosophers build on the work of prior philosophers; historians rely on other historians. The same principle applies to TikTok videos. The same principle applies, really, to life. Living is a group effort.” https://mastodon.social/@cablegreen/111767069651067272
From the article: “As Bellos and Montagu repeatedly point out, all new creations derive from existing creations. In our head when we write a poem or make a movie are all the poems we have read or movies we have seen. Philosophers build on the work of prior philosophers; historians rely on other historians. The same principle applies to TikTok videos. The same principle applies, really, to life. Living is a group effort.” https://mastodon.social/@cablegreen/111767069651067272