polonius-rex

you’re comparing disney re-using work in a manner that directly competes with its living author with them re-using work of somebody who’s dead

disney abuses the current system by pushing for copyright extensions because disney would abuse literally any system

disney’s abuse of a no-copyright system would be significantly worse than disney’s abuse of this copyright system

Public domain because the authors are long-dead. You can’t steal sales from a corpse.

because you can afford to because you already have a way to support yourself in society

also, not all creatives are idealists, so would need some form of incentive to put in the extra effort to release their work to the public

Because you invested your time, effort and money to create this piece of art. Why on earth would anybody decide to create art if it was a guarantee that they’d die in a gutter?

In your anarchist utopia, maybe an artist can thrive. But we’d have to get all the way there first.

And in every step from where we are to where you want to get to, the artist is significantly worse off. You’re just letting perfect be the enemy of good.

As opposed to now where the original artist/author at least has some recourse against the big corporation. Versus none.

Why would the artist get an explosion of exposure when Disney’s edition of the book was significantly more widely publicised, so everybody who might be interested in it already bought it from Disney.

The literal best case scenario here is that you have equal marketing, in which case Disney gets 50% of the sales and you get 50% of the sales. In what world is cutting your potential revenue in half a win for creators?

You publish a book. Disney publishes that book the next day, because they can afford to have people on payroll whose job it is to literally just scout out new books so that they can publish them themselves.

Me, a book enjoyer, is going to my local bookshop. I ask what’s new, and I’m told about Disney’s new book. I’m not told about your new book because after all it is the exact same book, and Disney has threatened the store to withdraw all business if they sell anybody’s books but theirs.

I buy Disney’s book. You get no money. You become poor and destitute.

How does a lack of copyright help you in this instance?

they would fight for it instead of fighting to stop it

Your argument is that Disney expanding copyright protections proves that copyright benefits them.

But Disney isn’t expanding copyright protections in a way that benefits anybody but themselves. They’re abusing their power in the existing system, just as they would in any system.

If it helps, forget about the literal Disney corporation. There will always be some corporation that exists with deeper pockets than any independent creator, because copyright isn’t the only reason that corporations exist. It doesn’t have to be Disney who steals your work, republishes it, and buries the original. Any corporation with more money than scruples can do it.

Why do you think extending copyright past the life of the author helps the author? They’re literally dead.

The only party that could benefit from something like that would be a corporation that can outlast a mortal’s lifespan.

If copyright goes, it’s a free-for-all. Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

Yes, disney abuses their leverage in the current system, but they’d abuse their leverage in any system. And them abusing their leverage in a system without copyright is significantly worse for independent artists than them abusing their leverage in a system with it.

if copyright wasn’t a thing, disney would just re-publish everything any independent artist ever made as their own, and then probably use their unfathomable leverage to bully any platform hosting the original artist’s work into not doing so

:O

go back to wooden cart wheels

because piracy is a service problem

i’m not worried because an android that heavy couldn’t even stand up

you really think ONE android could wipe out life as we know it?

why are people in this thread acting as if he’s just admitted to ordering hits on whistleblowers

are they supposed to just have a billion guns in every shot or something

a variety of different gun designs would at least be something to look at as the main characters expressionlessly shoot towards their off-screen enemies

Yeah I had the exact same confusion, so I watched it again and she gets tackled into the box, then stands up from inside it.

If this was all in one continuous shot, it would probably be kind of funny. Quite why directors are still making the exact mistakes called out by a 9 minute youtube video 9 years ago is beyond me.

So it looks like bad editing is another thing to get excited about.

anya-taylor joy so that it all comes full circle to mad max

“from the producer of uncharted, spider-man and venom”

i feel like i can guess which version of spider-man