To answer your first question no.
Intellectual property is a societal construct and it is as real as racism is. Which isn’t saying much.
If an artist doesn’t want their music to be heard and possibly replicated, altered, or used in a way they don’t like then it is their responsibility to never release it. Only by hiding it can they keep the world from misusing it.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
rofl pure stupidity
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
The thing that irks me the most is that everyone who disagrees is an idiot or a liberal or some shit. No matter how grounded and nuanced your take is.
Every leftist has their own, ultra specific orthodoxy, and they will always find something about yours that makes you “not a real leftist.”
Nothing new either, it’s happened countless times. It’s so self-sabotaging.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You have no take other than approving the purchase and sale of our culture controlled by corporations.
You say IP is for the little guy, the average federal copyright lawsuit cost a quarter of a million dollars to pursue.
You have no clue about remix culture which was destroyed by profiteers. Corporations control the majority of artist’s commercial music. Many artists don’t own their own work.
Corporations constantly steal IP. AI has shown us that they don’t respect the very laws they created.
The only person living in a dystopia and living it is you. The abolishment of IP would cause an explosion of science and art like the world hasn’t seen since they created laws to prevent it.
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Not the person you responded to, but how would a recording artist earn a living in that model? If their work can get scooped up by a mega corporation and sold for pennies on the dollar due to the massive existing resources, reach, and infrastructure available to the corporation, what protections would there be against that happening?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Whatever you say Motoass!
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Insults and nothing else? Thanks for proving you’re nothing but a petulant child who does not understand the real world.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I just returned an insult, you are welcome dumbass.
Blocked for being someone not worth talking to.