🔵 copyright is weird. the problem people want it to solve is "but what if my art gets stolen?"
but there's still so much art theft! bootleg backpacks, people making "my own personal Minecraft," AI art using datasets acquired without permission, NFTs being minted off other people's work, and so much more.
copyright, instead, allows a large enough artists to treat their work (and their ideas) as digital land.
🔵 if i, say, trademark the japanese word, "nomu" (to drink,) because it's the title of my critically acclaimed book series, titled, "Nomu," i now get the ability to legally threaten others.
do you have a video game about drinking water? wanna be funny and call it "Nomu Adventure?"
too bad!
🔵 i, the critically acclaimed artist behind "Nomu," set up the ability about 3 years ago to directly call you and anyone like you.
i get to threaten to take down your (keep in mind, completely unrelated and fresh) idea and work, unless you pay me rent.
🔵 that rent is either literal rent; royalties to the trademark, or it's a service i want you to do:
-change the name.
-change the game.
-change its artstyle.
-change its mechanics.
-compromise your vision for me, the artist with power over you, because i have... what was it...
mental real estate? no...
digital land? no, that's not it either...
oh yeah! it was something called Intellectual Property.
🔵 i get to steal your own work instead! i get control over your vision, your ideas, and how the work ought to come into existence.
i, the critically acclaimed artist of "Nomu," don't really care how my work is being stolen. i can reclaim that by just controlling other people's ideas instead.
@sylv 🔵 problem is it's just rent seeking behavior, but with art.
it does nothing to protect you from actual theft. you just get to act like you're a landlord because you own a work. that's not a technology, that's just a codified-into-law way to abuse other artists
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