This law, which was originally written in 1941
Ah yes, a booming democracy 🥰
boomering democracy
EU countries are particularly enthusiastic about enforcing copyright law
Euros intuitively know they produce little of material value, especially outside of niche high tech manufacturing equipment. The only response to this is to restrict the digital content they produce as aggressively as possible given it can be infinitely reproducible.
Artificial scarcity is only going to be more commonplace as the industrial base of the west is continuously hollowed out. Access to raw materials is going to become more precarious in an increasingly multipolar world, which is why software and media will be heavily restricted in order to have something to exchange for resources once imperial plunder and unequal exchange diminish in utility.
Intellectual Property is clown of an idea hiding in the suit of grown-up sounding words.
Imaginary Property
Pretend Ownership
arbitrary rules-book-er-y only becoming more absurd in an age of globe-spanning computer networks!
i want to be able to tell nazis they can’t use my art and to not have disney copy my shit… the current arrangement is not aimed at those ends or particularly good at facilitating them.
Somehow “free speech” or “freedom of expression” or “the free exchange of ideas” never includes ones that are owned by corporations.
I think it sells to them as the “Guardians of Civilization and Culture” fantasy. They have that “moral rights of the artist” legal mindset which extends beyond a purely econonic perspective. At least the American brand of the IP fiasco is mostly anchored in economic hoarding stupidity.
Considering how Europe celebrates the various mid-millenium artists that grew up to become Ninja Turtles, you’d think they’d recognize that culture ticked along just fine before the Statute of Anne.
Freedom of speech™
