• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    That’s the point, though. The law is very clear that mass distributing wholesale copyrighted works isn’t fair use. Digitizing it was the part justified by fair use “archival”. Distribution isn’t.

    You have to start over and throw out the old laws. Right now there’s no framework to own a file at all (outside of actually holding the copyright). It’s always a license.

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        4 months ago

        The core concept of ownership and copying needs to change if you want anything resembling what IA did to be protected. Because the underlying premise behind copyright legislation that that any unauthorized copy needs a specific exception to be legal, and it’s impossible to use digital files without numerous copies.

        That’s starting from scratch.

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          4 months ago

          Okay but you can literally just overwrite laws without making a period inbetween where anything and everything is allowed. That’s fucking stupid.