This iconic mouse is weeks away fromn being in the public domain Jan. 1, 2024, is the day when ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters the public domain

  • Something Burger 🍔
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    1211 months ago

    These two takes aren’t incompatible. It is possible to want to abolish copyright, while wanting everyone to comply to existing rules while they aren’t abolished yet.

    • rentar42
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      211 months ago

      Sure, but in most of these discussions the ones arguing for “getting rid of copyright” mostly just mean “stop big companies from owning everything”. When mentioning that FOSS licenses depend on copyright to work it’s usually some form of “we’d have to find a way to still make them work …”.

        • rentar42
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          111 months ago

          “Easy.” You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

          • @PopOfAfrica
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            211 months ago

            Laws are made up. Really all it takes is public will.

      • @SCB
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        11 months ago

        Right but this is a child’s solution to an adult problem, as you point out