@fuzzypeach @mrscherryb I know how lawyers reason, which is by analogy. That's also how my brain works. The analogies to collage or remixing are going to be powerful in working these things out, I think. You can copyright a work of authorship, but not its fundamental style. You never could protect that.

Meanwhile IP law needs a brisk rebalancing away from corporate interests, for sure. I share with #CoreyDoctorow (@pluralistic) the view that IP is a dangerous euphemism. https://jacobin.com/2021/05/cory-doctorow-interview-bill-gates-intellectual-property

A quote from Brian Eno, as spotted in a piece by Corey Doctorow @pluralistic

‘Be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not doing before.’’

This resonated - both the idea of it AND the convoluted way it's expressed, which forced me actually to think about it more deeply.

The entire piece is at https://locusmag.com/2023/03/commentary-cory-doctorow-end-to-end/. Highly recommended, along with most everything he writes, both fiction and non.

#coreydoctorow #pluralistic #locus #brianeno

Here is how platforms die:

"first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

Metafilter discusses Cory Doctorow on the Enshittification of the internet

https://www.metafilter.com/198011/Enshittification

#enshittification #capitalism #internet #CoreyDoctorow #WalledGardens #algorithms #AI #tiktok #CreativeEconomy #creators #content #BigBox #exploitation #platforms #facebook #google #amazon

This is the first link to a news site I have posted on here, won't make a habit of it but this is highly relevant to a lot of creators on here

https://www.theverge.com/23547877/decoder-chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-spotify-ticketmaster-antitrust

#TheVerge #ChokepointCapitalism #Interview #CoreyDoctorow #RebeccaGiblin