@Derpy Whooves
Okay, how can we get that to positively change for the average person and not just give major corporate copyright holders nearly-unlimited power over usage of created works?
I don’t know. I kind of feel like I’m an average person. And I or the companies I’ve worked for have benefitted enormously from Copyright laws. Like - we kicked Hewlett-Packard’s ass over a copyright infringement - the “small guys” are being protected by it, too.
Copyrighted franchises at this level are … well, franchises. It’s not JUST the big companies like the Sony’s or Walt Disney’s or whomever currently owns the X-Men who are benefiting, it’s all the tens or hundreds of thousands of people working on those intellectual properties who are protected as well.
In the same way, we protect the rights of artists on this site. If someone has created something, we give them - the person who created it - to quote you - “nearly-unlimited power over usage of (their own) created works” and any derivative works based on it. And I think that’s how it should be.
So, Copyright isn’t all bad. It’s not even mostly bad.
It’s mostly good.
No, but that sounds too much like work and if I don’t HAVE to read it then I’m going to skip it.
It’s the weekend, and I want to create stuff for myself now.
The publishing rights for something I did in the 90’s just expired this year, and I’m going to redraw it and republish it. Because even though someone else had the exclusive publishing rights, I own the copyright. And I can do with it what I bloody well feel like doing now. Because Copyright.
