The ones designing the vast majority of IP are paid in wages, the ones who own the IP have not actually designed it, or played a minimal role, ie outlining what they want designed. Copyright is something that is truly unnecessary in general, it is at its best when protecting the vast minority of small producers who own their own designs and can actually afford to manufacture and sell them, but the bulk of the economy is not at all organized in such a fashion to begin with.
Sure, at the cost of the people doing the work to design the product not being compensated for their labor.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Electricblush@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, because that is where all the profit goes in Western companies, and not the CEO, upper management and stockholders…
You are not wrong in assuming that exploited labor is being under compensated, but different models of labor exploitation aside, people actually making value are not the people reaping the benefits.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Ok but it’s not done by a bunch of Robin Hood’s, they rip off (read: steal and then destroy the economic capacity) of small/independent designers all the time too.
Electricblush@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh absolutely, I was mainly targeting the notion that the way “legit” companies distribute the profits is somehow more fair.
If anything these markets show what the actual cost of production is, so it shows how much profit could have been distributed to those actually producing the goods. (Including designers, factory workers etc)
A lot more people could have sustainable incomes instead of CEOs getting their third yacht…
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s true, I would prefer the people doing the most work get the most reward. But currently they’re getting none, so I would settle for some.