Hey does this mean we can go back to hating copyright though, i liked when we all agreed copyright was a bad system instead of one we need to expand
I feel like we’ve just been through a bizarre period of copyright becoming inexplicably popular amongst creative leftist types online because of AI stuff and while I’m sympathetic to that I think copyright is, on balance, much worse
"Artists should have control over how their work is used, as a matter of basic respect!"
Yeah!!
"Therefore we should strengthen the laws that major corporations have exploited for decades to gain a stranglehold on creative industries and keep certain artists on a leash."
Wait, no, hold on-
As always, the existence of copyright only has any value at all, minuscule though it may be, because artists are required to ply their craft to fill their bellies. The moment that capitalism ceases to be the economic system that a people languish under is also the moment that copyright should be erased in its entirety from existence. Even now we should limit our use of it as much as possible (primarily to disallow large corporations to use our creations to make money with but not to disallow the same actions from small independent creators not using our creations for nefarious reasons).
If our basic needs are provided for and we can create simply for the enjoyment and the cultural enrichment of others, there is no value in policing who can do what with other people's creations. Honestly, in an edenic world like that I would feel honored to have other artists do horrible wretched things with my characters and creations that I would never do.
(In addendum, it is always moral and right to create art in which disney characters are shown doing very un-disneylike things and release it into the wild.)