Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney’s Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney’s decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
    174·
    6 months ago

    I have zero respect for any IP laws, the one thing I agree with China on. They only serve to inhibit innovation and make the rich richer.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      163·
      6 months ago

      That doesn’t make sense to me. It would discourage innovation if you could produce something new and then someone else (or some huge company rather) could reproduce it entirely and steal your idea.

      Now obviously this 100 year crap is awful but I certainly think there is merit to short copyright/patent law.

      • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
        51·
        6 months ago

        It discourages innovation more when the vast majority of modern cultural works, or mechanical inventions are completely off limits to all but a small ownership class. It means no one is generally free to iterate on modern ideas without risking legal liability. Ultimately, pretty much nothing in this world is original, everything is an iteration on existing works. When anything approaching a modern work is restricted, there’s far less to iterate on.