Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by hyperman1 on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:33AM
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I saw from the pirate party a presentation where copyright came to be as a reaction on the printing press. The catholic church feared to lose control over what information people would receive, and the scribes required protection. The state liked this control too, so a monopoly was added to law.
So there used to be mostly bad reasons for IP. It was always the haves repressing the havenots.
Not the one I read, but another source with a similar story: https://torrentfreak.com/nothing-new-under-the-copyright-ecl...
The future of intellectual property though, seems quite in doubt. I'll not re-elaborate the points made in the original article, and instead I'll state what I believe the future will actually look like:
The future of getting paid is going to be in "payment for genesis" not "payment for control". This means a return to patronage and a return to paying for things which can only ever be inherently temporary, such as a live performance of music.
In the long-long term, as we're going to see piracy rise once more in the face of ever-fractured streaming services we'll probably see the world of "payment for control" be further and further cannibalized, eventually seeing a greater and greater shift by artists (across most all media) towards funding sources that (right now) look like Patreon and its ilk. We're already seeing these changes, and I think the future will only see these accelerate.