spidergirl-fibula:

spidergirl-fibula:

being pro-copyright is like a cartoon “i hate cool things” political stance

“you have to respect an IP owner’s right to take down content in breach of copyright licenses” - person who spends their free time stomping on flowers and calling the cops on local skaters

I think the concept of ‘Intellectual property’ is ridiculous. Patents, copyrights, and other things under that umbrella are just the government giving a certain person a temporary legal monopoly over a certain idea. The person does not own the idea. You cannot own thoughts. You just got a legally mandated monopoly for the supposed purpose of rewarding you for thinking up that something.

Sure, it got turned into basically property through constant extensions and increases in power but it was not supposed to be that way, and it makes no sense either.

Copyright terms shouldn’t last longer than 20 years under any circumstances and fair use should be a thing again that hasn’t been stamped out of existence by the courts.

The only sane IP is the trademark and even then people are using it for stuff that they really shouldn’t be allowed to.