Agreed. Question Copyright was a non profit that advocated that but they just shut down recently.
I think the most prominent copyright abolition (or at least, reform) groups nowadays are the online pirates, who are essentially nullifying copyright in practice. No matter the legal status of AI, you'll be able to rely on them for a torrent.
The end of copyright just means that corporations would no longer pay creators, they would just steal all the work and sell it without asking. It would hurt creators more than help them, today if someone writes a book you have to ask them to distribute it, without copyright they would just distribute and the author wouldn't make any money.
> The end of copyright just means that corporations would no longer pay creators
We wouldn't pay corporations either.
> they would just steal all the work
There is no such thing as "stealing" any of this. There is only copying.
> sell it without asking
There's no need to buy what they're selling. Supply is infinite. Without copyright, you'd just download anything you want.
Maybe some people will make physical books for those who prefer it. That's fine.
> the author wouldn't make any money
They need to find new business models anyway. Authors need to find ways to get paid before the work is created, for the act of creating. Not by selling artificially scarce copies.
Most copyright abolitionists advocate for a pre-production funding model, such a patronage or crowdfunding. It's not perfect but we can see both already in use in the real world.
Both give an incentive for good projects, since a bad project with no users won't attract any funding. Crowdfunding further incentivises creators to keep a good reputation for being reliable, since customers have to take on more of the risk.
Furthermore, copyright abolition allows creators to legally make money off of "alternate sequels" or "alternate versions", if the original company screws up the story in some way. Currently it's all just hobbyists that fly under the radar.
Why are you downvoted? This is the solution. You are not alone.
There's probably a copyright abolitionist movement out there. If there isn't, someone should start one.
Agreed. Question Copyright was a non profit that advocated that but they just shut down recently.
I think the most prominent copyright abolition (or at least, reform) groups nowadays are the online pirates, who are essentially nullifying copyright in practice. No matter the legal status of AI, you'll be able to rely on them for a torrent.
Don't forget the pirate parties!
The end of copyright just means that corporations would no longer pay creators, they would just steal all the work and sell it without asking. It would hurt creators more than help them, today if someone writes a book you have to ask them to distribute it, without copyright they would just distribute and the author wouldn't make any money.
> The end of copyright just means that corporations would no longer pay creators
We wouldn't pay corporations either.
> they would just steal all the work
There is no such thing as "stealing" any of this. There is only copying.
> sell it without asking
There's no need to buy what they're selling. Supply is infinite. Without copyright, you'd just download anything you want.
Maybe some people will make physical books for those who prefer it. That's fine.
> the author wouldn't make any money
They need to find new business models anyway. Authors need to find ways to get paid before the work is created, for the act of creating. Not by selling artificially scarce copies.
Most copyright abolitionists advocate for a pre-production funding model, such a patronage or crowdfunding. It's not perfect but we can see both already in use in the real world.
Both give an incentive for good projects, since a bad project with no users won't attract any funding. Crowdfunding further incentivises creators to keep a good reputation for being reliable, since customers have to take on more of the risk.
Furthermore, copyright abolition allows creators to legally make money off of "alternate sequels" or "alternate versions", if the original company screws up the story in some way. Currently it's all just hobbyists that fly under the radar.
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Over several hundred years of lobbying by increasingly entrenched groups that made ever more money from it?
Sure, but that's a little pessimistic even by my standards.