Its a stupid way to have gotten into the debate, but its extremely weird to me how defensive certain online cohorts have become around a system that is and was objectively designed to exploit content producers and protect publishers: the copyright system.
Its a google talk from the “don’t be evil” days of google.
Fuck publishers and fuck the exploitation of content creators, but understand, copyright is not for and never has been for the protection of creators. Its only ever been for the purpose of protecting those who exploit creators.
If you have an idea, and you don’t want any one to have access to it, then don’t share it. Once you’ve shared an idea (or piece of art, content, anything), its not yours any more. The idea that you have universal rights to something that also wasn’t’ even yours to begin with because you were the first to plant a flag, is ridiculous. All ideas are derivative.
Its a stupid way to have gotten into the debate, but its extremely weird to me how defensive certain online cohorts have become around a system that is and was objectively designed to exploit content producers and protect publishers: the copyright system.
If you assume you know what copyright is but haven’t actually researched it, please start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI
Its a google talk from the “don’t be evil” days of google.
Fuck publishers and fuck the exploitation of content creators, but understand, copyright is not for and never has been for the protection of creators. Its only ever been for the purpose of protecting those who exploit creators.
If you have an idea, and you don’t want any one to have access to it, then don’t share it. Once you’ve shared an idea (or piece of art, content, anything), its not yours any more. The idea that you have universal rights to something that also wasn’t’ even yours to begin with because you were the first to plant a flag, is ridiculous. All ideas are derivative.