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people are really great at convincing themselves that a problem comes from Scary New Technology when the truth tends to be something a little closer to "this new technology is exacerbating or highlighting pre-existing systemic problems, usually by making exploitation more efficient than it once was". this would be just a mild source of annoyance except for the fact that this leads to bullshit proposed solutions to the problem, such as "Simply Don't Use The Technology" . instead of. y'know. addressing the underlying systems that landed us here in the first place

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Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

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for any mobile only users. here is the clown.

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ten fucking years its been in my head

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Harrison Wood Hsiang

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yall i swear to god if a bitch says her pronouns are she/her then her pronouns are she/her

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anyone else feel like your brain broke in high school and now you’re stuck in your teens mentally even as an adult

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keygen music is fucking crazy you could be downloading a crack for some fuckinnn office program and every now and then it sounds like a bossfight is starting

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Cute house. Why would the real estate agent post this making this 2 bedroom look like the entryway to hell?

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Only those who are over 65 years of age or have a "high-risk health condition" will be permitted to receive the 2025 COVID vaccine.

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Everybody always so bold when dunking from the other parallel dimension 😔

"Redraw tumblr post" time of the year again, based on this one specifically that i found weeks ago but I needed to do something with it hfgjdh (with the original post being on tiktok). I just love canon Blaze being absolutely ass at cooking💜

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That trans woman doesn't go outside? She's chronically online? Hmm I wonder if there's a reason she doesn't feel safe or comfortable in the outside world... Nah, she's just a loser and we should all make fun of her.

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"I don't have to respect cwc's pronouns because they're problematic" -> the press publicly and proudly deadnaming and misgendering a trans woman who got a legal name and gender marker change

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I am so sick and tired of seeing the trans women around me being slowly hot coaled into the closet and into essentially being forced back into "Men who would really love being women but Can't because they Aren't". It is so painful stop fucking doing this to our trans women. Stop forcing them to be "Fine" with being called dude bro man he and biologically male stop it stop it stop it you are killing her. You are killing her.