• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The law isn’t automatically moral.

    This issue just exposes how ridiculous copyright law is and how much it needs to be changed. It exists specifically to allow companies to own, for hundreds of years, intellectual property.

    It was originally intended to protect individual artists but has slowly mutated to being a tool of corporate ownership and control.

    But, people would rather use this as an opportunity to dunk on companies trying to develop a new technology rather than as an object lesson in why copyright rules are ridiculous.

    • Xanza@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      I don’t disagree but the idea being that the law is made by supposedly moral men and that law is at least moral within the perspective and context of society at the time.