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If only copyright supporters asked the public for permission to lock up our culture, if they only treated us with respect, if they only went out of their way to obey the basic rights of human nature.
This is what I and others hate about copyright: you do the work once, then expect to sit on your ass and get paid for it over and over again.
Ssssshhh, creator haters don't like to be called out for not wanting to create just be handed monopoly tax for something they did sometime or another. Ruins their 'special snowflake' image.
Pretty sad, but it's nothing new. It's the reason I don't give a fuck about the usual methods of education, I have learned 10x more in .01 the time just surfing the internets.
As you probably suspected, I never did good in school, I was always singled out as an idiot and a psycho for doing/thinking differently.
The irony is that I was probably the one of the smartest people there but people tend to judge "intelligence" by how much useless parrot knowledge you can remember and how well you can cling to the doctrine.
There is a terrifying trend in this country right now of attacking academia, specifically, and free thought and intellectualism, generally. Free thought is painted as subversive, dangerous, elitist, and (strangely) conspiratorial. (That word… I do not think it means what you think it means.) Universities are accused of inefficiency and professors of becoming deadwood after tenure or of somehow “subverting the youth”. (Socrates’s accusers made a similar claim before they poisoned one of the great thinkers of the human race.) Politicians attack science to score points with religious fundamentalists and corporate sponsors.
Some elements of these feelings have always floated through the United States psyche, but in recent years it has risen to the level of a festering, suppurating, gangrenous wound in the zeitgeist of the country. Perhaps those who sling accusations at education have forgotten that the US reshaped millennia of social and economic inequity by leading the way in creating public education in the nineteenth century? Or that education has underlaid the majority of the things that have made this country great — fields in which we have led the world? Art, music, literature, political philosophy, architecture, engineering, science, mathematics, medicine, and many others? That the largest economy in the world rests on (educated) innovation, and that the most powerful military in human history is enabled by technological and engineering fruits of the educational system? That the very bones of the United States — the constitution we claim to hold so dear — was crafted by highly educated political idealists of the Enlightenment, who firmly believed that freedom and a more just society are possible only through the actions of an enlightened and educated population of voters?
Frankly, it’s sickening, not to mention dangerous. If the haters, fearers, and political opportunists have their way, they will gut one of the greatest institutions in human history and, in the process, will cut the throat of this country, draining its lifeblood of future creativity. Other countries will be happy to fill the gap, I’m sure, and pick over the carcass of the country that was once the United States of America.
If his salary depends on it then it is not real misunderstanding, he is doing it the same way a dog begs for food. This makes it even worse, they know what they do is screwing people over and they don't care.
Actually I think they do realize they are obsolete that's why they are fighting so hard, they don't want to accept change because they are scared of it. They are scared they will lose power and no longer be able to dictate people's creative lives, that's something they can't deal with.
They are slaves to their own greed, egos and over inflated sense of entitlement. They're own worst enemy.
Unfortunately, if your work contains any sort of copyrighted work you are most likely doomed to obscurity unless you can either find a host who doesn't give a fuck about laws OR you managed to get the power of Streisand effect on your side.
Certain creators such as Nina have already been through this, however not everyone can be as lucky as her.
There's something I've learned and that is "Put someone into a situation that nulls their strengths and all they have left is their weaknesses". Copyright takes away the strength from remix artists (Creative freedom) and leaves us trying to climb a mountain with one hand.
While we often can get away with what we do we can only do so if we remain obscure. Sadly, it is obscurity that weakens us further leaving in this catch 22 situation where we just don't really know what the fuck to do.
The purpose of copyright is to incentivize the creation of *new* works, ones that don't infringe other people's rights.
Using trees, grass, every kind of terrain/liqiud/metal/mineral/plasma/fire/element, all animal species, any language, outer space, time, all cultures, the whole concept of stories, the whole concept of art even picking your pencil to draw and posting on this forum fuck it EVERYTHING (& nothing) is infringing on the rights of God. Repent your sins, pirate!
I'm just curious why you even brought up the whole 'incentive to create' thing, honestly. Cause we both know that is not the REAL purpose of modern copyright, even the tiniest amount of scrutiny proves it false.
I guess even you knew if you left it out it not even ignorant people would fall for it, which is sadly what copyright depends on to survive: deceit and ignorance.
Copyright gives the incentive to create new works, but it does so by giving exclusive rights.
Woah, woah, wait.
It gives an "incentive" to create by giving a very small percentage of creators an "exclusive right" to create, thereby restricting everyone else from creating? How the fuck does that work?
Copyright isn't stopping anyone from creating new works, it only prevents them from using other people's works in certain ways.
Excuse me, if you stop someone from using something to create a work you are stopping creativity, period.
You can butter up it with a million legal weasel words and candy and sugar but it is stopping creativity.
What you're saying makes zero sense: you seem to think that by allowing copyright owners to exclude others, copyright isn't doing what it's supposed to do.
Oh, no. I know that's what it is supposed to do, and it does it very well.
90% of the time the people with the monopoly do little to no creating themselves, often imprisoning their works once they perceive it no longer 'profitable' or 'useful'. Also often against the wishes of fans who they give the finger and attempt to corral towards the 'next big thing', which they probably didn't create either just acquired the rights for.
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Ssssshhh, creator haters don't like to be called out for not wanting to create just be handed monopoly tax for something they did sometime or another. Ruins their 'special snowflake' image.
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Yup, that's why we can't let your silly little Authors Guild have a dime.
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As you probably suspected, I never did good in school, I was always singled out as an idiot and a psycho for doing/thinking differently.
The irony is that I was probably the one of the smartest people there but people tend to judge "intelligence" by how much useless parrot knowledge you can remember and how well you can cling to the doctrine.
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Red herrings? You pulled one the moment you made the comparison between luggage and a fricken DVD container.
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They are slaves to their own greed, egos and over inflated sense of entitlement. They're own worst enemy.
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Certain creators such as Nina have already been through this, however not everyone can be as lucky as her.
There's something I've learned and that is "Put someone into a situation that nulls their strengths and all they have left is their weaknesses". Copyright takes away the strength from remix artists (Creative freedom) and leaves us trying to climb a mountain with one hand.
While we often can get away with what we do we can only do so if we remain obscure. Sadly, it is obscurity that weakens us further leaving in this catch 22 situation where we just don't really know what the fuck to do.
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Using trees, grass, every kind of terrain/liqiud/metal/mineral/plasma/fire/element, all animal species, any language, outer space, time, all cultures, the whole concept of stories, the whole concept of art even picking your pencil to draw and posting on this forum fuck it EVERYTHING (& nothing) is infringing on the rights of God. Repent your sins, pirate!
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I guess even you knew if you left it out it not even ignorant people would fall for it, which is sadly what copyright depends on to survive: deceit and ignorance.
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Woah, woah, wait.
It gives an "incentive" to create by giving a very small percentage of creators an "exclusive right" to create, thereby restricting everyone else from creating? How the fuck does that work?
Excuse me, if you stop someone from using something to create a work you are stopping creativity, period.
You can butter up it with a million legal weasel words and candy and sugar but it is stopping creativity.
Oh, no. I know that's what it is supposed to do, and it does it very well.
90% of the time the people with the monopoly do little to no creating themselves, often imprisoning their works once they perceive it no longer 'profitable' or 'useful'. Also often against the wishes of fans who they give the finger and attempt to corral towards the 'next big thing', which they probably didn't create either just acquired the rights for.
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