like, i’ve said this before – remember when the big cultural event was the hbomberguy james somerton video? – that’s like, in the imagination of anyone who thinks that copyright law “‘protects creators”’, surely the most clear-cut use case imaginable, where a guy straightforwardly and blatantly plagiarised people and made huge amounts of money off it. and did copyright law stop him? no! people knew he’d been plagiarising them for years and the only thing that made him stop was a youtuber with a bigger audience dropping a vigilante video essay on his head