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Comment by ronilan | Hacker News Reader

Copyright is not as important to society as Silicon Valley wants everyone to believe. It a property issue and not even a critical one. Most of the problems around it can be solved with money.

The collateral damage caused by this lawyer infused, never ending “copyright war”, though is real.

Not worth one good man.

Edit: I’m a “creator”. Never been “corporate”. I had my work “cloned”.

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It isn't even clear that calling it "property" is appropriate considering the many differences...

Only if they care about money.

Banksy isn't likely to sue anyone.

I can't tell if you are making a joke or not.

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-banksy-sued-itali...

They're not Banksy direct.

Yes, but mostly in a negative way. All of these industries would havea lot more freedom to innovate if there were significantly shorter copyright periods.

Insofar as it being one of the primary handcuffs preventing us from creating more compelling content, yes, it is important. Ending it (or at least returning it to a role more similar to a century ago) will be awesome for content creators.

Yes. However, of the artists, the publishers, and the producers, only the artists are entitled to copyright, no? The Constitution limits copyright to artists and scientists [0], and in practical terms the Constitution is understood to refer to the artists who create works of art, and the scientists who describe physical inventions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

> Copyright is pretty important to the ... academic publishing

Indeed, that's why "Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692222

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