Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
by hef19898 on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:58AM
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And rightly so, because people need ways to make a living of their work. I live of my salary, a full-time artist lives of his work. This has to be protected. People not getting this, should try working without a salary, aka being adequatly reimboursed for their work.
It is yours as in, it's your property (like your car). It's not yours as in, derived entirely from you (like your hand). That's the thing.
The generation of copyrightable material can't exist in a vacuum, I can't even tell if your works are music, video, written or what else, but I know for a fact that you can't produce them if you don't take in a whole lot of stuff from society in the first place, of course morality points to giving back to the community. Public domain is not charity, it's due diligence.
But we agree that the public can probably get an even better deal if it allows for monetization of those works, as that will promote their generation. That's what copyright is. That's why it's just a monetization scheme.