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jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Humans have been freely copying each other for millions of years.

False. Master artisans have been keeping their knowledge secret in order to maintain a competitive advantage, only eventually passing their knowledge to the most advanced of their apprentices. Temporary monopolies (Patents), and temporary Copyright protections, have enabled the exponential expansion of knowledge.

Keyword being “temporary”. We have Disney to thank for turning Copyright’s temporariness into a mockery of itself.

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