• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      We only really run into trouble when we start treating corporations like people and copyright as a commodity in it’s own right.

      Non-transferable copyright for the life of the author would be perfectly acceptable.

      • KⒶMⒶLⒶ@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        the statute of Anne was the first copyright law and it was written to stop printers in London from breaking each others’ knees over who was allowed to print the world of Shakespeare who was already long dead.

        copyright is a bill of goods when packaged as a protection for creatives.