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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You should watch this from the “don’t be evil days” days of google.: https://youtu.be/mhBpI13dxkI

    Copyright isn’t, and never has been, about “protecting the artist”.

    It was, and is, and has always been, about controlling the means of distribution.

    Interestingly, if you look into the lecturerer of that video, they are very active on mastadon.

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      3 months ago

      Watching it now, I am pretty sure I know most the history but there is always more to learn. Thanks!

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      The central takeaway is a critical examination of copyright’s history and its current relevance in the digital age. The speaker promotes a shift in the conversation towards a model of creativity and distribution decoupled from traditional copyright, emphasizing that copyright was historically designed to protect distribution channels rather than support artists. He argues that the internet’s capabilities render those mechanisms obsolete and calls for a new understanding of creativity, free from the constraints of the current copyright system. Ultimately, the speaker urges the audience to question the widely held beliefs about copyright and to support the free flow of information. The youtube video is summarized by transcriptly