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[Matthew Campbell]

On 8/12/15 12:09 PM, Mythril Moth wrote:
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> On 8/12/2015 9:48 AM, seb ren wrote:
>> Honestly, the idea of "intellectual property" is meaningless drivel 
>> dreamed
>> up by the various majors' legal representatives and their ilk.
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> You'll find it difficult to find anyone who agrees with this 
> statement. You'll also find it difficult to find anyone who isn't 
> insulted by this assertion, especially artists and writers.

While his statement is on the extreme end, if you really think "you'll 
find it difficult to find anyone who agrees with that statement" then 
you haven't been paying attention to the public debate over the concept 
of intellectual property for the last decade or more.

There was a blog post I read recently, "They Took Our Myths" that 
outlines why so many people feel frustrated with current IP laws. You 
can check out out here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/06/they-took-our-myths.html

I'll quote one particularly relevant section.

[["But most of our myths are *locked up beyond our reach*.

Thanks to various intellectual property laws, notably copyright, any 
mythic figure created after approximately 1920 has a unique custodian. 
That's an incredibly powerful position, and it's responsible for the 
positions of most of the nobility of storytelling today. In the film 
world and the comics world, in particular, there are sharp deliniations 
between the studios -- the myth-holders, the nobles -- and everyone else.

The former can make far more money than the latter. Why? Because of 
their hold on our myths. The public hungers to see tales of their mythic 
heroes, as they have throughout history. It's an incredibly powerful 
draw, and possibly the only thing sustaining the top-heavy world of 
moviemaking as it is today.

But the result is that storytellers can't access most of their 
mythworld. We reach for our mythic figures, but we can't touch them; at 
least, not without risking legal battles that we'll almost certainly 
lose. And we definitely, definitely can't do what storytellers have been 
doing for the rest of humanity's existence, which is tell tales of our 
myths for money"]]

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Matthew

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