@fraying this is extremely important, and thank you for making this point!

There is another side to it: it's easier for different industry lobbyists to argue against "content creators' rights" and to try to relegate them to a lesser category of copyright than what the corporations "create" and "promote".

Think "user generated content" instead of "art", when talking about social media posts, for instance. Diluting the rights of individual artists.

@arden @fraying I used to do a lot of lobbying for open standards, copyright reform, and the like, and each time corporate ghouls used the term "user generated content" I tore them a new one.

It's such a clear case of hypocrisy. If we should protect all authors' rights, and then it doesn't matter if it's Disney's "Mickey Mouse" or ursulav's "The Biting Pear of Salamanca" https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/The-Biting-Pear-of-Salamanca-29677500