Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
by okr on Friday December 29, 2023 @07:27AM
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"Yeah, the roads we built with your machines, you have to pay us that we use them so that our work got easier by your invention, because, we educated you!!" (says the slave owner)
Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
by nirvdrum on Friday December 29, 2023 @08:37AM
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Presumably the content creators are paying taxes just like the rest of us. Many almost certainly improve society in other ways.
Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
by w4ffl35 on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:18AM
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> Presumably the content creators are paying taxes just like the rest of us
Correct. This content creator has also been a software engineer for 20 years. Paid a lot of taxes. Not sure why I'm supposed to owe anything to anyone.
The truth is everyone who has a business or "creates content" or does any economic activity owes it (to themselves, but also) to the society they are inserted in: be it material stuff like roads to carry your products and an affluent and secure population to buy it, or immaterial stuff like, oh I don't know, the collective achievement of Humanity so far on whose shoulders we all stand.