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  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • Eliminating copyright doesn't mean they'd be allowed to lie about who wrote what they were publishing. Anything an artist creates blowing up and gaining wide appreciation is very good for that artist's future prospects. An artist who is spreading their work for free anyway is much better off in the scenario where there's no copyright and everyone understands the need to tip / patronize their favorite artists.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • If you are already sharing something for free in order to gain publicity, what is the downside of others repackaging them and spreading them further? That is exactly the kind of publicity you're trying to gain.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • "your proposal would harm young artists who need to share their works in order to gain publicity for something they intend to sell and sustain themselves on."

    The default is already for young artists to share a lot of their work hoping to get noticed. Getting rid of copyright would be reorienting the whole system to center that experience more rather than the established artists and art producing corporations who now are in a strong enough position to charge. "Making it" would just mean that your patreon was doing gangbusters rather than selling a lot of copies of whatever your art is.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • Yeah Project Gutenberg really demonstrates how this is all pretty much already built, just illegal to include recent works in. Though of course that's just books where the post copyright free library could also include all other art and culture such as tv, radio, movies, images, games, etc

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • Yeah even if you are pro-copyright as a way to encourage artistic creation there is no justification for how insanely long works stay under copyright. Or for banning free filesharing of copyrighted works.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • If we did ever get away from copyright we'd have a very different funding model for artistic creation. More patronage, patreon, and tipping based and less payment per sale. Artists, or groups of artists, would create and share their work, and people would direct money towards those they enjoyed the most. Physical copies of anything would decline in importance with all art available for free download, and would be sold and costed more based on the effort needed to manufacture that physical object than anything to do with the original creator or creators.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • I'm more open to burning the whole edifice of copyright law down than you are, but the key reform that I want that maybe we could agree on is that it should be legal to distribute coprighted works for free. No need to to let someone else try to make a profit by undercutting your sales, but if someone is willing to make and distribute copies (or ecopies) of a work to no profit for themselves they should be allowed to. What that would mean in practice if it was legal would be an online content library containing all human art and culture, freely available for download to all comers. It might hurt the income of some creators, but you'd still have a lot of other ways to make money that don't entail depriving people of that library.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • Well in theory the idea is that it encourages people to create more by making doing so more lucrative. May have even made some sense back in the era before digitization.

  • The return of pneumatic tubes

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  • Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.

  • The return of pneumatic tubes

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  • If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.

  • Mexico’s Political Revolution

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  • Ordinary Mexicans

  • What Ever Happened to the AI Apocalypse?

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  • What do all the people downvoting it based on the title assume it means?

  • TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent

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  • Traditionally both parties had to agree to get divorced if there had not been some "grounds" for the divorce that could be proved in court. That's why the classic business for old timey private detectives was proving that their client's spouse was committing adultery in order to legally justify a divorce.

  • TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent

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  • Microsoft's newest tactic to convert Windows 10 users is giving them a big comparison list

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  • Any time a company is pushing a change this hard I know it's not something I want.

  • Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face

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  • Thanks. Alternatively with the NY Mag you can just paste the link into a private browser window and read unlimited articles - just make sure to close and then open a new private window for each one.

  • The future of cars

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  • It will be nice when the energy density on batteries has gotten high enough and charging times have gotten low enough that we can move on from making cars so aerodynamic and experiment more with funkier form factors.

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  • So trashy

  • The Break-Up?

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  • Really? This article was written before the recent events with Biden limiting arms shipments, seems like it was pretty prescient.