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In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis:
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Copyright rules are made with the needs of the entertainment industry in mind, designed to provide the legal framework for creators, investors, distributors, production houses, and other parts of the industry to navigate their disputes and assert their interests.
A good copyright policy would be one that encouraged diverse forms of expression from diverse creators who were fairly compensated for their role in a profitable industry. But copyright has signally failed to accomplish this end, largely because of the role it plays in the monopolization of the entertainment industry (and, in the digital era, every industry where copyrighted software plays a role). Copyright's primary approach is to give creators monopolies over their works, in the hopes that they can use these as leverage in overmatched battles with corporate interests. But monopolies have a tendency to accumulate, piling up in the vaults of big companies, who use these government-backed exclusive rights to dominate the industry so that anyone hoping to enter it must first surrender their little monopolies to the hoards of the big gatekeepers.
Creators get a raw deal in a concentrated marketplace, selling their work into a buyer's market. Giving them more monopolies – longer copyright terms, copyright over the "feel" of music, copyright over samples – just gives the industry more monopolies to confiscate in one-sided negotiations and add to their arsenals. Expecting more copyright to help artists beat a concentrated industry is like expecting more lunch money to help your kid defeat the bullies who beat him up on the playground every day. No matter how much lunch money you give that kid, all you'll ever do is make the bullies richer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday January 26 2020, @08:02PM (1 child)
> not a single patron have I found.
How good is your work, really? Have you asked for constructive criticism on it? Any beta-readers seen it? The first quick look I took, I found the text impossibly small and reduced. Couldn't read it on archive.is. Persisting, I reached coinsh.red, where, while still small, and mangled somewhat by JPEG compression artifacts, I could at least read it.
I find interesting the proposal of 13 months of 28 days each. Did you know that during the French Revolution, there was a proposal for Metric Time? 10 hours per day, along with other decimal divisions. Thing is, people hate changing what they have. It's far easier to build something new than to change an existing thing. Maybe work out something for Mars and Earth when (if?) a colony is ever established, then import it back to Earth when accepted. Uh, what day of the week is New Years? None at all, it seems. That breaks the heck out of the 7 day week.
The other material, I don't know. The impression I got is that it's a lot of unsupported assertions. Will take more study to understand it all.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday January 27 2020, @02:17PM
right click and save.
magnifiy in the viewer.
I have to do this with all of the most famous and informative memes I scraped from diverse places.
It comes with the terrirory, it is part of it, no one is going to hold your hand, you have to think.
The most common shill response to my work is nitpicking like this, you will notice it in response to my comments if you look.
Every website, you can change the text size and color, that is all your choice, not my imposition.
If you want someone to babysit you, there are other websites for that.
And yes, you should read and investigate. The calendar is the least important idea discussed in any of the memes, but it is a good one.
Another common shill method is, 'oh non one will ever change, people are so blah' etc etc. Azumi H. says that all the time.
No point in doing anything, everything is already the way it is, and people are such slugs, no point in doing anything, rinse repeat.
But anyone in that boat is just on the side of tyranny and worse at this point.