Posts by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
 (DIR) Post #AQPsrdiYsmAVegIFrU by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-08T18:23:41Z
       
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       @Raspberry_Pi @TobyRobertsPi lol, lmao even, I wonder how much money this post and your response will end up costing you as a company
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4HVgAzMy8R3cS8 by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T14:55:42Z
       
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       I'm also fucking tired of the way small-time artists and writers and so on get used (and often quite willingly) as a defence of copyright law, when these are people copyright offers little to no recourse to. You think most furry artists can afford a lawyer? get real
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4Io9LnjqA0hssi by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:05:55Z
       
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       The way artists' boundaries get enforced in the furry fandom is based almost entirely on social consequences too fwiw, I've never seen anyone actually get sued, but I have seen callout posts and so on.Not to get too much into this, this has good and bad effects, but a lot of it is motivated by the idea that artists should be respected, rather than just a naive desire to act as copyright police
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4KK5iWsmrMeuJ6 by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:18:13Z
       
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       People don't generally apply this specific mindset to corporations either. It's important, we feel, to respect the wishes of individual artists, but we don't think it's important to respect the boundaries of Sony.Still, the way the law works, the fact that recourse is most available to those with deep pockets, that means that Sony is the one which gets to enforce  "boundaries", and what a ridiculous concept.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4Ldyo4NyxKyIwi by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:19:15Z
       
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       I think we should also ask ourselves who actually benefits when it takes seventy years after you die for your work to be used by others without restriction.You're most definitely not going to benefit much, considering you're necessarily dead at the point the 70-year clock starts ticking.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4MxrtbtB3JHhaK by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:21:21Z
       
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       The answer, again, is that this is a very useful thing for corporations, because it means that they have a sufficiently long time in which "intellectual property" - that awful term - is something they can buy and trade as a special sort of commodity
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4OKEpvNRGyl55k by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:25:03Z
       
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       So, at this point, the main function of copyright law is to create regulatory capture, i.e. for governments, via regulation, to create markets which would never have existed otherwise.Our shared history, our culture, software which underpins vast swathes of modern society, information vital to the advancement of science, all held under lock and key so shareholders can benefit.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQwP4PbI60bzE9kDJI by sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog
       2022-12-24T15:30:40Z
       
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       The copyright lobby likes to use emotive comparisons, to compare copying to theft, but the reality is that copying is self-evidently not theft, no-one is deprived of ownership when something is copied.On the other hand, copyright itself is a mechanism which deprives us of our history, our culture, even our childhood memories, and it's copyright itself, the very concept of intellectual property, which should be described as theft.