• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    I think some form needs to exist, even under communism; or else how would you earn for your labor without someone else taking your work and exploiting it?

    I agree it should be like 10 years though, and infringement shouldn’t be some wild number, takedowns 100% should not be “shoot first ask questions later”, etc

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      4 minutes ago

      Communism means a moneyless society. There is no “earning for your labor” anymore and in turn no real loss for the artist that prevents them from having access to basic necessities, nor any real incentive for others to illegally copy someone’s work in the first place. So no, communism doesn’t really need any kind of copyright. Making it mandatory to credit the original artist could be mandatory, but that’s about it.

      Though I do agree with your second paragraph for the time being, where money earned through labor is required to survive.

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      20 hours ago

      Ideas are not products of individuals, but of societies. Artists and intellectuals need copyright nowdays because those jobs usually lead you to starvation under capitalism (no, i dont consider academics as a good example of intellectuals). And history is full of irony, because it will probably be capitalism that will take copyright down because its an obstacle to developing AI

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      23 hours ago

      Noo no, if ppl dont retire off working once, how will you sell ppl the fantasy of easy retirement off one lucky opportunity

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        20 hours ago

        What’s to keep Disney from poaching everyone’s ideas? IP protection isn’t a bad thing in itself. IP protection in perpetuity is the problem. 10-20 years seems fair.