Comment on Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it
tonytins@pawb.social 4 months ago
The notion that every artist has to somehow protect their works for all of their life and beyond the grave is obviously dumb and purely favors corporations at the cost of pitting artists themselves and fans.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Let’s not forget that copyright enforcement is mostly funded by taxpayers. It’s a collectively massive cost to the rest of us.
It probably made sense for a limited time when we (society) were getting something of comparable value (cultural works) in return. But now that it’s effectively endless, and dominated by corporations, it looks an awful lot like systematic extraction of wealth… from us.