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one of the most unforgivable things about current copyright law is that it makes any attempt to carry the torch of a dying cultural sphere into a new era de facto completely illegal. there's no way to preserve stuff but to severely, repeatedly, undeniably intentionally break laws
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@hikari There are still issues making it work at scale (and I think they may be cultural, rather than technical issues) but I still think crowdfunding represents a solution to a lot of the problems copyright was invented to solve.
Copyright was invented to liberate work from patronage, but the problems with patronage - the reason liberation was needed - are much less pronounced when that patronage is distributed.
@Catriona oh, very wise insight! you are onto something here
@hikari The argument that gets wheeled out in favour of copyright is that artists (etc.) should be compensated for their work... and yes, they should! But that is a labour issue, not a property issue. And "intellectual property" feels like a way of skirting round the fact that intellectual labour is labour, and a way of legitimising rent-seeking on that labour.
Oh no is this socialism?