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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by shawn on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:41AM (#17713460)
The argument is that it's harmful for society to restrict artists from remixing other people's work. And when you put it that way, how could it be otherwise? We'll have to agree to disagree that it'd cause problems for people to be able to tell a Darth Vader story.
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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:48PM (#17761757)
It causes problems because then there is no profit incentive and then there goes the entire content creation industry.

You can remix themes and ideas all you want. Just don't call it Darth Vader and profit off other people's investment in that specific expression of the space opera.

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