Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by graemep on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:25AM (#47572193)

The individuals who get rich from copyright are a rarity.

Most mid-list authors make very little from copyright. A lot of the "authors" who make a lot of money from writing are celebs who slap their name on a ghost written work.

> Which was always better for them than let Twitch take 70% and be a sharecropper.

Copyright predates Twitch or giant corporations and was designed to protect the profits of the publishers from the start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by oblio on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:54AM (#47573097)

Giant corporations started in the early 1600s and back then they had gunboats :-p

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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by graemep on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:08AM (#47573219)

there were very few of them though. They constitute a far larger proportion of the economy now.

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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by lstodd on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:19AM (#47572877)

This is so, but note that publishers were the "giant corporations" of the time.

In this nothing changed. Authors never were and still are not the point of copyright/IP.

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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by graemep on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:09AM (#47573228)

Comparatively big for the time, but very small compared to publishing companies how.

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