Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it [Updated]
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One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, …

  • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago
    1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

    And

    1. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

    Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.