You’ve all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    I’d like to see government subsidies instead.

    How would that really work in practice though? Would Disney get $100 million for making a movie while I only get $100 for making my own independent movie? It’d be really hard to assign a value to things without the associated system that we currently use.

    • CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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      11 months ago

      It’s a good point another user also made. I’m thinking private patents that the government regularly purchases is probably more achievable. Otherwise, yeah, you’d have to employ people to estimate the value of an IP from rates of consumption, and it would be complicated