If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed

Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by modriano on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:34PM (#35473291)

> The entire concept of copyright is problematic - it limits what you can do with property that you own.

People can own guns. Is it problematic for the government to limit what people can do with their own guns? I would argue that it's not problematic at all, and I bet you would, too.

I'm open to other systems than copyright to make it possible for creators to afford to create and sell their creations. I think Patreon is fantastic, but I don't think it would work well for things like code (or situations where people don't really care about the creator and just want the product).

Everything will have second,third,fourth order effects.

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by chelical on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:47PM (#35473432)

The fundamental problem of intellectual property is that it protects the interests of large corporations far more than those of small creators. IP only matters if you have the resources to defend it in court or if your content isn't worth the effort to steal.

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by uni_rule on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:15PM (#35473760)

US IP law was written far before the scale of indie digital content or the mere concept of sampling was a blip in lawmakers' eyes. It was made for broadcasters and publishers to go after industrial scale bootlegging of books and movies.

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by modriano on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:06PM (#35473651)

That sounds more like an implementation/enforcement problem than of the concept of IP.

If [

    1) disputes were decided on the merits and

    2) costs of dispute resolution were

        2.a) deferred until decision-time,

        2.b) born by the decided-against party, and

        2.c) made the decided-for party whole and then some

], I bet either

A) an industry would spring up to identify wronged creators and fund defenses of their IP, or

B) industry would just pay to license the copyrighted work.

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by chelical on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:43AM (#35526765)

Any system of IP will inevitably lead to some entities accumulating a disproportionate share of IP and abusing its enforcement against everyone else.

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