• @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    026 days ago

    Wrong in all points.

    No, actually, I’m not at all. In-fact, I’m totally right:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI

    Copyright originated create a monopoly to protect printers, not artists, to create a monopoly around a means of distribution.

    How many artists do you know? You must know a few. How many of them have received any income through copyright. I dare you, to in good faith, try and identify even one individual you personally know, engaged in creative work, who makes any meaningful amount of money through copyright.

    • @Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world
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      026 days ago

      I know quite a few people who rely on royalties for a good chunk of their income. That includes musicians, visual artists and film workers.

      Saying it doesn’t exist seems very ignorant.

          • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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            25 days ago

            Cool. Name one. A specific one that we can directly reference, where they themselves can make that claim. Not a secondary source, but a primary one. And specifically, not the production companies either, keeping in mind that the argument that I’m making is that copyright law, was intended to protect those who control the means of production and the production system itself. Not the artists.

            The artists I know, and I know several. They make their money the way almost all people make money, by contracting for their time and services, or through selling tickets and merchandise, and through patreon subscriptions: in other words, the way artists and creatives have always made their money. The “product” in the sense of their music or art being a product, is given away practically for free. In fact, actually for free in the case of the most successful artists I know personally. If they didn’t give this “product” of their creativity away for free, they would not be able to survive.

            There is practically 0 revenue through copyright. Production companies like Universal make money through copyright. Copyright was also built, and historically based intended for, and is currently used for, the protection of production systems: not artists.

        • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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          025 days ago

          YouTube is not a legitimate source. The prof is fine but video only links are for the semi literate. It is frankly rude to post a minor comment and expect people to endure a video when a decent reader can absorb the main points from text in 20 seconds.