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.

• 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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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        your Samsung example is trademark. it’s not copyright.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        do you know how I know that you aren’t a copyright lawyer?

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