Should we abolish copyright law?

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Youtuber #651473848969 has complained about copyright for the 482515178949th time now, so as a true independant free thinker I believe we should abolish copyright law because fuck copyright. I hate copyright. Copyright sucks and if you disagree then you're a faggot who wants to see these poor YouTubers starve to death because of copyright.
#endcopyright :twisted:
 
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yes we should.
We're entering into an age of abundance.
Copyright is good for societies that rely on centralized institutions.

patents incentivize people to innovate. only centralized entities can protect their well earned reward.

in a decentralized age, everything changes.
 
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We're long past the time to remove intellectual property.
IP trolling, copyright being weaponized by schizos (with no regard for the penalty of perjury), Aaron Swartz driving himself to jump from a bridge over downloading from JSTOR...

I'm of the belief that if ideas can be monopolized for long enough, then birthrights the constitution provides are sure to be eroded, but then again, the 1st amendment is already thwarted by the obscenity clause and the tight to "the pursuit of happiness" is a subjective.
You wouldn't download a car...
 
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Yeah, that'd be all nice and dandy until some faggot sells snake oil repackaged as medication and kills hundreds of people
 
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Probably not abolish it be make it far more limited, as little as five years with no renewal. If they want to be really specific they can say the five years starts when it first goes to commercial production, so in the case of a movie it's not under IP laws until released, and you can even let them renew once for an additional five years. If you can't make your money in 10 years off of that one product, that's your problem.

Or at the very least let people copyright a character forever, but not the product the character is in. As in, you can't make your own Micky Mouse shit without license, but after five years of some Micky movie being out anyone can just stream it publicly.
 
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It serves a purpose but it's out of control, it needs to be strictly limited and protections should last a fraction of the time they do.
 
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Retink said:
Or at the very least let people copyright a character forever, but not the product the character is in. As in, you can't make your own Micky Mouse shit without license, but after five years of some Micky movie being out anyone can just stream it publicly.
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This is the current distinction between trademark and copyright. Disney is the only one who hold the trademark to current Mickey Mouse product but previous Mickey Mouse product will fall out of copyright after enough (too much) time and so can be reproduced freely.
 
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