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Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals

May_Nyan

@Zochmenos It should be obvious that the majority of workers are not "small business owners" or otherwise self employed... becoming either requires either a significant amount of capital to begin with, or a lot of luck... for every Twitch Streamer who makes it big, thousands get nowhere.
The majority of workers are coerced, with threat of starvation and homelessness into labouring for the benefit of some rich person they'll never even meet who hordes vast sums of wealth while the actual workers are paid little, have to constantly worry about how they will afford food and bills and rent because they can't afford their own homes so what little money they do earn is mostly stolen by landlords, and because of this they are forced to continue doing things they don't want to and are unable to pursue their own interests.
No amount of pointing out exceptions will change this reality, this hierarchical inequality is inherent to the capitalist system, capitalists can gain nothing without exploiting and stealing from others.

Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals

May_Nyan

@Zochmenos One solution would be for individuals or small groups to be able to have a form of copyrights, while not allowing any for corporations (who ideally would cease to exist anyway), or rather, rights only for people who directly work on a thing. For branding things would change to more localised production rather than being dominated by global brands.
Those are some ideas for improvements within the current system but my preference is also for the profit motive to be completely eliminated, which would remove the incentive for exploitation completely.

Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals

May_Nyan

@Zochmenos Getting rid of corporate copyright would give artists more control and freedom over what they make... so
one obvious thing is that we'd no longer see high quality projects being forced to end because of cease and desist notices, and more artists would be encouraged to do what they want without fear of that.
Another benefit would be that companies would no longer being able to take the rights of things made by their workers.... under the current system if someone designs a character while at a company then leaves, they can't even use their own character anymore, because it's owned by a company who really had nothing to do with its actual creation. Eliminating copyright gets rid of this problem, an artists work could no longer be taken away from them like that.
Another thing is that not being under the control of corporations would allow artists to follow their own creative vision and make what they want, rather than what a company thinks is "marketable", so a lot more interesting and varied things would be made as a result.