Comment on Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.

• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  none of this contradicts what I said. government enforce monopolies are wrong.

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  • shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The contradiction is that you imply copyright is always a government enforced monopoly. It can be, but it usually isn’t, especially with art. So using it as a counter argument here makes no sense.

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      copyright is always a government enforced monopoly.

      that’s the only thing it is. it’s a law that grants exclusive rights to sell. how do you think it’s not in relation to art?

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      • shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exclusive rights and monopolies are not the same thing. Monopolies are about access to a category of things or services that fulfill a need, not one specific thing. E.g. Samsung has exclusive rights to sell Samsung TVs, but they don’t have a monopoly on TVs, and talking about a monopoly on Samsung TVs specifically makes no sense. Similarly no one has a monopoly on landscape drawings, rock music or scifi movies, just exclusive rights to specific pieces of art or literature that they created.

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• rchive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In a sense it is a monopoly, just a very narrow one. The first step to identifying a monopoly is identifying the relevant market, and that is quite hard to do, actually.

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• explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Further reading for anyone interested

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