Cory Doctorow writes on BoingBoing: In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis. (Also on EFF DeepLinks.) As so often is the case, he writes well.
In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis
2019 was not a good year for competition in the entertainment sector. Mergers … reduced the number of big movie studios from five (already a farcical number) to four (impossibly, even worse).
And the list goes on. Hollywood screenwriters. Disney. Taylor Swift. YouTube. They all get mentioned.
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You certainly sent me down a rabbit hole with this one 😝
– Ynas Midgard 2020-01-28 00:03 UTC
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Björn is talking about copyright problems. The example I was most interested in is old role-playing games being impossible to reprint because the authors can no longer be found.
But you know what can’t be reprinted? The old editions of the Swedish role-playing game Drakar och Demoner. The game that shaped the Swedish RPG scene and market. The license and trademark has been transferred a few times and newer editions have been made, but a reprint of old material is largely legally impossible. – It's Hard to Talk About Copyright
It's Hard to Talk About Copyright
– Alex 2021-11-18 06:32 UTC