I’ve said this before and I fear I’ll have to say it again, but watching the flip of politically connected, ridiculously wealthy, more or less unregulatable companies v. well-meaning knowledge workers on the issue of “copyright is absolute and inviolable” v. “copyright is just an idea, man” has been real unpleasant!
Giant malign forces of capital 20 years ago use a weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Giant malign forces of capital today use a more or less opposite weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Reasonably well-informed commentators with mostly good takes: Ah, clearly the problem is that we don’t have a perfect interpretation of copyright. Consider the following thought experiment – an artist in a state of nature approaches a cave wall and…
