Ask HN: What would a world without copyright look like??
I think copyright is fundamentally absurd. It is the ownership of information, and that can work in a world where most business happens on a physical level and the production of information can be separated from the usage of information. But this stops making a lot of sense in the limit as we go towards further digitalization of our lives. Think, for example, if a brain implant meant to help people with aphantastia with visualization would be legally permitted to visualize copyrighted works. Essentially, the limit of copyright in its totality is thought crime, which we probably don't want to be a thing. Generative AI is starting to expose the cracks as traditional notions stop making sense (Are models learning like humans? Eventually they will.)
Therefore I would like to have a discussion on how a world without any copyright, any ownership of ideas or information, would look like. Would it be bad? How bad? How would industries adapt?
For example at a first glance it looks like all big budget art production would collapse to indie level plus a few kickstarter projects.
Perhaps industries would reinvent copyright themselves by entering large shared contracts where they promise eachother not to infringe on their rights, i.e. fast food joints create a cartel which shuns brands that don't follow the rules.
I think traditionally when laws which society thinks should exist did not, then soviety created paralgovernmental institutions that... enforced these laws. Like local militias to prevent crime.