The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copy…
Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The intended purpose of copyright was never creativity, but rent extraction.
Now you're surprised that it performs exactly as designed and helps to maximize rent extraction via monopolization.
"Copyright shouldn't encourage monopoly" is like "racism shouldn't encourage hate crimes."
#AbolishCopyright
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