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No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

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156 points rntn | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.496s | source
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ronsor ◴[28 Jun 25 19:19 UTC] No.44407371[source]▶
Copyright is finally being deprecated as it should be.

I'm still waiting for an update on the final removal timeline.

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gametorch ◴[28 Jun 25 20:31 UTC] No.44407946[source]▶
Yes. I am an anti-copyright extremist.

May the best implementation win.

Otherwise, everyone loses out so that one individual can artificially collect rent through a government-enforced monopoly.

Accelerate.

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ordinaryradical ◴[28 Jun 25 20:35 UTC] No.44407967[source]▶
I write novels. What am I supposed to do to earn in this new, copyright-free regime where anyone is free to “implement” my novels?
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idle_zealot ◴[28 Jun 25 20:42 UTC] No.44408006[source]▶
Attract an audience and ask for patronage or get a job writing on behalf of an employer.
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1. Cheer2171 ◴[28 Jun 25 21:49 UTC] No.44408441[source]▶
We had a few very violent revolutions and civil wars to get out of feudalism and patronage, and I can't believe how many techies want to take us back.
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2. martin-t ◴[29 Jun 25 00:35 UTC] No.44409366[source]▶
I wonder how many people see themselves as just temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they sympathize with the upper class where they feel like they should belong.

Or they just have no mental model of how incentives work. All this talk about abolishing copyright coming from people whose job literally consists of creating intellectual property. I have never seen one of them try to think it through and come up with the new equilibrium a world without copyright would settle into.