Comment by ForOldHack
6 days ago
Gentrified is one thing, while rule 34 is another, while. the misuse...
"One of the guys had brought a comic book porn magazine of the ******."
The current system protects the rights of the owner for a while, and the opportunity for nefarious use by trolls, while it prevents the innovation for other beneficial uses like the association with benevolent organizations.
This is not a hard problem, its a very hard problem, for which the current frameworks used to be merely inadequate, are not woefully inadequate, to the point of being very damaging to the intent of the artist, and to the artistic process.
This is not a very hard problem. It's not even a problem. We've got a framework for protecting the rights of content creators as to their content, and we have it that after some time those works enter the public domain because that is actually quite valuable for society.
Pornography might be a problem, specifically as to this case or even generally -- many think reasonably think it is. Pornography does generally get less protection than other contents/speech, so you could limit the sorts of pornographic contents that are ok, and you could ban pornographic parodies of historical persons and characters that have entered the public domain. You could even see an outright ban on all pornography, which would completely solve that part of the "problem" that you see. But distasteful use of works that have entered the public domain is absolutely not a problem in and of itself because we have long ago decided that all works eventually entering the public domain is a very desirable outcome.