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

  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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    • shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because I wanted one that’s not about art, but the priciple is the same.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        trademark has nothing to do with copyright. they’re two sets of laws that developed a two different times for two different reasons.

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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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