Copyright law is too draconian.
At this point, the US should repeal the law completely, and let the chips fall where they may. Hollywood says we'll see a loss of culture (fewer movies, songs, books).
Let's find out.
At this point, the US should repeal the law completely, and let the chips fall where they may. Hollywood says we'll see a loss of culture (fewer movies, songs, books).
Let's find out.
"The Hamptons is not a defensible position."
~ Mark Blyth (prof. of Political Economy at Brown), on the recent rise in populism rejection of traditional politics (e.g. Trump, brexit, etc)
Seems like some scapegoating is going on here: (2011) http://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-hollywoods-waning-creat...
If the countries/regions were large enough (like say, the whole EU, or China or Australia or whatever else), that'd really put the US in a bad situation. Either compromise and fix copyright laws, or 'fight back' against countries powerful enough to threaten them in return. How far would anyone go to 'save' the status quo?
One would hope so. Commercial culture is dishonest and shit, and crowds out everything interesting.
Repealing copyright law would render the GPL and all other OSS licenses unenforceable. Are you sure that's what you want?
Let's find out."
This is obvious a reckless idea.
I personally think that copyright should last maybe 10 years or so, so we're kind of on the same side of this.
...but arguing that hundreds of thousands of careers, billions of dollars of market cap, etc., should all be potentially destroyed because "I wonder what will happen? YOLO!" is a bad way to approach the debate.
A more apt comparison would be "The US should make a law that all software must be released open source." Would we all be out of jobs if that happened? Maybe, but it's at least a debatable point.