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Apologies to everyone I've mentioned, the "replying to" part of the UI is strangely absent from my twitter right now. I can't untag you. (See image). pic.twitter.com/p92w1qP0r7
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This, unironically. 40% of the population is creative to some degree. Intellectual property law exists to monopolise the intellectual capital that creative types produce. The constant expansion of IP law has the goal of monetising the exercise of a fundamental necessary impulse. twitter.com/BeigeShiba/sta…
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A creative person has a psychological need to be creative in some capacity. The more creative they are, the more depressed they will become if they can't be creative. Creativity also relies upon the product of previously creative people. Inspiration is important.
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Every single big IP, from Star Wars, to Breaking Bad, has drawn upon previous works. Star Wars has lots of "influences" and "inspirations." Corporations charge you money for BEING INSPIRED by something. This is extremely profitable. That's why they keep trying to expand it.
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Existential Dredd
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See this thread by @Elvenmonk on music. Sampling is mentioned.
Sampling is basically how the entire creative process works for entire types of media. But even if you don't sample, being inspired is now Illegal, in music. Being similar is illegal.
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Existential Dredd
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The current state of the music industry is the ideal end goal that Capital has in mind for all creative works. Full control and monetization of everything. Royalties for your work SIMILAR to IP they hold. You can't stop people being creative, but you can make them pay for it.
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Existential Dredd
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Remember, Disney got big by adapting classic fairy tales to the big screen. They were working off existing IP, adapting it to a new format. That's illegal now, as Don Mappin, the creator of the Fate Core Mass Effect RPG found out.
(Quote image from): mailanka.blogspot.com/2016/01/psi-wa… pic.twitter.com/2R9G8H4zsK
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Existential Dredd
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Back to the music industry for a moment.
Here, @adamneelybass explains the sheer insanity of a relatively recent copyright case that further proves that "sounding remotely similar is now illegal."
This is what they want to do for every single type of media
youtube.com/watch?v=0ytoUu…
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A reason that corporate control of other regions of IP hasn't advanced as far as the music industry is because music is mathematical and thus similarities can be detected algorithmically. Fully automated corporate rentseeking isn't (yet) possible for narrative works.
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I speculate that another reason is the sheer level of mutually assured destruction that would ensue, due of the level of 'narrative and conceptual sampling' that goes on when making narrative works. Great artists steal, and all that. But that might not stop them in the end.
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