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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: 0.421s | 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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heavyset_go ◴[28 Jun 25 20:59 UTC] No.44408166[source]▶
Leads to a class system where those who actually create for society are parasitically leeched on by a class whose wealth only exists because of another government enforced monopoly.
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Dylan16807 ◴[29 Jun 25 03:48 UTC] No.44410215[source]▶
What class are you talking about here, and what monopoly?

Other than authors, the people I can think of that make money off novels are book printers and occasionally media studios? But those also depend on copyright, and other than copyright nothing makes them a monopoly.

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1. heavyset_go ◴[29 Jun 25 03:56 UTC] No.44410247[source]▶
The OP is proposing a patronage system. The world has had a long history with that.

I think we can look back on history and see what kind of class system dominated when creators had to rely on patronage to eat.

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2. Dylan16807 ◴[29 Jun 25 04:01 UTC] No.44410268[source]▶
That has the causality backwards. Patronage does not lead to unequal wealth, it's the unequal wealth that leads to patronage being the only way to fund art. Getting rid of copyright would not give the wealthy more money via government enforced monopoly.

Also they're using the term "patronage" more loosely when they say to attract an audience. There's no horrible class inequality when a bunch of people are paying $1-100 a month.