| ▲ | solatic 2 hours ago |
| You'll throw Hollywood and most of the publishing industry out of business overnight if you "abolish" copyright. Not a good idea to throw so many people out of work. Copyright needs to be reformed, absolutely. Not abolished. |
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| ▲ | reddozen an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's not only Hollywood, these anarcho-capitalists that want to abolish private ownership will destroy pharmaceutical innovation. (This is where people's brains will turn off) Why would a firm invest in research improving Super-Rare-Disease therapies if I don't get exclusive rights to the monetary benefit? And to the inevitable room temperature IQ DSA crowd, why would the AnCap government with state research firms ever direct public resources to improving Super-Rare-Disease? Something that affects 1-in-10000 people doesn't deserve public resources like common diseases. |
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| ▲ | happymellon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Hollywood was created by ignoring copyrights. |
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| ▲ | solatic 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Your argument is non-sequitur and nihilist. America was created by colonizing Native land, so should we somehow evict hundreds of millions of people in the name of justice? (/rhetorical) Original sin is a sunk cost. If you want to make the world better, you focus on what's right for tomorrow, not what was right for a century ago. | | |
| ▲ | happymellon an hour ago | parent [-] | | So, is Hollywood a good or bad thing? Was it is a good thing and it was created by ignoring copyrights and therefore we shouldn't protect copyrights as an absolute because other good things can be created out of it, or is it a bad thing and is using that copyright to restrict others. You can't have it both ways. My point was just that defense of Hollywood is a terrible example. |
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| ▲ | ronsor 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hollywood was created by ignoring (Edison) patents, not copyright. On the other hand, Disney's success is largely owed to public domain adaptations, and for a century, it did its best to shrink the public domain and expand copyright. | | |
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