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should anything be copyrightable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Recluse_Spider@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You've all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?

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[–] Mahlzeit@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

It's noteworthy that patent law is 20 years to this day. It has survived with its core fairly intact, the main change being that you can no longer get a patent for bringing an invention into the country. Today that is called piracy (poor China).

I believe that is because patents simply have to work for the whole country in encouraging progress. If cultural production is stifled, well... Who cares? The elites in the copyright industry benefit, and they have an outsize influence on public discourse.