Jun 19, 2021Kr0niic
Looking up another mans net worth
RASIE 🦦Jun 19, 2021·edited·1 reply
FriesI mean yeah
Do you think it's good when big fashion retailers steal from small Etsy designers and make money off their work?
Do you think it was good when Elon Musk used Tom Edwards's artwork in the Tesla UI and promotional materials without permission or compensation? It's settled now, but he felt like he could do that in the first place
All I'm saying is that copyright law isn't just for making samples harder to clear, and believe me I wish it was easier, but it can really protect smaller artists from getting screwed over by big corporations
Do i think those instances are good? No.
But it works both ways, and IP/copyright legalities far more often benefit conglomerate/incorporated groups, and that's far worse than the (comparatively) occassional theft/uncredited use of an unknown indepedent work by a big commercial brands/celebrity billionaires.
The extremely common act of international commerce titans buying unfathomable amounts of rights, licenses, and patents has negatively impacted modern communication/culture in daily life. It prevents millions of people from learning about the histories of art, media, industry, culture (or just baseline self-educating) — by either hiding them behind large licensing/distribution fees, vaulting them as capital assets, or intentionally shelving acquisitions in order to control threats to their own products in the market.
Simply put: IP/copyright protection is one of the most widespread and common means of acquiring capital in the 21st century, and all laws surrounding the concept should all be abolished in order to burn just one of the many bridges of unchecked accumulation of capital.
I don't care about small time/social media artists getting their work stolen for commercial use, because that's not a good reason at all for supporting legislature that also fuels ubiquitous capital exploitation. Besides, every work of art and media should be free for anybody to use, translate, modify, educate, and appreciate — opinions favoring the contrary are pro-exploitation and contributed to the awful state we're in now.
Jun 19, 2021FriesI hate billionaires and NFTs, but this legal ruling could set a precedent that would prevent smaller artists from getting their work minted as NFTs by other people without their consent
Jay's other photography lawsuit he's got going on is completely frivolous and he doesn't need a cent, but the legal ramifications of this one could be good if it rules in his favour
Jun 19, 2021FriesI hate billionaires and NFTs, but this legal ruling could set a precedent that would prevent smaller artists from getting their work minted as NFTs by other people without their consent
Jay's other photography lawsuit he's got going on is completely frivolous and he doesn't need a cent, but the legal ramifications of this one could be good if it rules in his favour
- Jun 19, 2021RASIE
"I hate billionaires"
proudly supports the existence of IP/copyright protection laws and rulings
Smh
Jun 19, 2021 - Jun 19, 2021RASIE
Do i think those instances are good? No.
But it works both ways, and IP/copyright legalities far more often benefit conglomerate/incorporated groups, and that's far worse than the (comparatively) occassional theft/uncredited use of an unknown indepedent work by a big commercial brands/celebrity billionaires.
The extremely common act of international commerce titans buying unfathomable amounts of rights, licenses, and patents has negatively impacted modern communication/culture in daily life. It prevents millions of people from learning about the histories of art, media, industry, culture (or just baseline self-educating) — by either hiding them behind large licensing/distribution fees, vaulting them as capital assets, or intentionally shelving acquisitions in order to control threats to their own products in the market.
Simply put: IP/copyright protection is one of the most widespread and common means of acquiring capital in the 21st century, and all laws surrounding the concept should all be abolished in order to burn just one of the many bridges of unchecked accumulation of capital.
I don't care about small time/social media artists getting their work stolen for commercial use, because that's not a good reason at all for supporting legislature that also fuels ubiquitous capital exploitation. Besides, every work of art and media should be free for anybody to use, translate, modify, educate, and appreciate — opinions favoring the contrary are pro-exploitation and contributed to the awful state we're in now.
I get where you're coming from, I really do, the pharmaceutical industry is a great example of how this kind of legislation actively works against human life, but your solutions are incompatible with the world as it currently is, and I don't think we're in anything close to a political moment that could bring about the necessary change
Say for example 'every work of art and media should be free for anybody to use, translate, modify, educate, and appreciate', that would be great! The only thing is, that would require financial safety nets to ensure artists could make their living irrespective of the amount of attention their work receives. In the world as it stands today, free art everywhere would just mean artists are paid even less than they are at the moment
The way I see it, America is (unfortunately) under capitalism and that's not going to change any time soon, this is a nation that was shown Bernie Sanders and did not vote for him, a revolution is not going to occur. Even if it were attempted, those involved would be up against the United States military and police forces, the members of which are pretty overwhelmingly allied with the republic as it is
Combine the impossibility of a socialist uprising against the most powerful military machine on earth with the fundamental fact that most Americans would not want such a revolution in the first place, and the whole venture becomes pretty hopeless. Whether or not they've been influenced by right-wing sources like Fox News, most US citizens aren't anxiously awaiting a communist overthrow of their government
With that in mind, we seem to be stuck with capitalism for a very long time, and you know who have the most precarious jobs under capitalism? Artists! Even more commercial forms like music are highly risky careers to get involved in, once you get into exhibition art your chances of making a steady living from your work continue to shrink. Because of this, it's pretty fair that artists would want to be financially compensated for their work, selling albums, clothing, prints etc, that way they can use their passion to make money
Copyright law is a good way to ensure that your work can make you a living, it's abused by corporations all the time and most likely does more harm than good, but if it didn't exist, it'd be even harder for artists to make a steady income under capitalism and would open them up more to corporate exploitation
In an ideal world, copyright law would be abolished and artists wouldn't need to rely on passive income from royalty payments etc to make money, but the fact is if copyright law were abolished today and all art were made free, it'd be disastrous for young artists starting in their industries
We're currently in an era where an environmentally-conscious artist can make an artwork, even a tweet about how NFTS are bad for the environment and that content itself can be minted as an NFT by an antagonistic figure, harming the world further and potentially making the troll some money off the back of the artist's work, and there are no legal defenses against it. If Jay wins this lawsuit, the case would be able to be used as an example to prevent further exploitation of artist's work, and hopefully discourage would-be NFT trolls from doing the same
Jun 20, 2021FriesPeople have absolutely made a billion dollars due to inventions that have made my life easier, there's no doubt about that, I still don't think any one person should have that amount of money. I'm guessing you've had this argument a lot and I don't think I'm going to change your mind, but in a world where so many people live in poverty, billionaires absolutely don't use their money in a way that benefits the world.
Either you're sitting on it, hoarding it until death, or pursuing stupid ventures like private jets and space travel (commercialised space travel and Mars bases etc are neither practical, useful or desirable, you wanna live on a big orange rock where the air kills you?)
Electric cars? Sure! That's good for the environment, don't have a problem with that, but most of the world's billionaires either hoard it, spend it on dumb stuff or try to influence world politics based on what they think is right. No figure should have that power by virtue of their wealth imo
They're also usually never content with what they've got, insane greedy mindset, like Jay suing that photographer for selling prints of him for thousands of dollars, an absolute drop in the ocean for Jay. I straight-up don't think being a billionaire is an ethical human aspiration, and it's weird that so many people from the working and middle classes defend them online, always seems to come from an 'it could be me someday' mindset but that's just something I've noticed and I'm not gonna act like that necessarily applies to you
It's just a fundamental thing where I don't think anyone deserves to be a billionaire and you think people do, I don't think either of us are gonna change that
“No one man should have that power” KANYE always ahead of the game
Jun 20, 2021wtf
Jun 20, 2021FriesI hate billionaires and NFTs, but this legal ruling could set a precedent that would prevent smaller artists from getting their work minted as NFTs by other people without their consent
Jay's other photography lawsuit he's got going on is completely frivolous and he doesn't need a cent, but the legal ramifications of this one could be good if it rules in his favour
- Jun 20, 2021
The biggest crime here is that Roc A Fella is still operational and he’s not actively signing new acts to it
Meek
Sean
BobbyShould be repping roc a fella instead of roc nation.
S*** could be like hip hop motown
It was dope that Kanye kept the roc a fella logo and s*** on his projects for as long as possible maybe even as recently as JIK
Jun 20, 2021
I need that 
Jun 20, 2021FriesThis is actually good, sets a legal precedent that could prevent people NFTing other people's work en-masse
There are no laws that explicitly deal with NFTs yet and people currently can basically mint whatever they want
- Jun 20, 2021Fries
People have absolutely made a billion dollars due to inventions that have made my life easier, there's no doubt about that, I still don't think any one person should have that amount of money. I'm guessing you've had this argument a lot and I don't think I'm going to change your mind, but in a world where so many people live in poverty, billionaires absolutely don't use their money in a way that benefits the world.
Either you're sitting on it, hoarding it until death, or pursuing stupid ventures like private jets and space travel (commercialised space travel and Mars bases etc are neither practical, useful or desirable, you wanna live on a big orange rock where the air kills you?)
Electric cars? Sure! That's good for the environment, don't have a problem with that, but most of the world's billionaires either hoard it, spend it on dumb stuff or try to influence world politics based on what they think is right. No figure should have that power by virtue of their wealth imo
They're also usually never content with what they've got, insane greedy mindset, like Jay suing that photographer for selling prints of him for thousands of dollars, an absolute drop in the ocean for Jay. I straight-up don't think being a billionaire is an ethical human aspiration, and it's weird that so many people from the working and middle classes defend them online, always seems to come from an 'it could be me someday' mindset but that's just something I've noticed and I'm not gonna act like that necessarily applies to you
It's just a fundamental thing where I don't think anyone deserves to be a billionaire and you think people do, I don't think either of us are gonna change that
get a job, hobo
- Jun 20, 2021
babylon shermLmfao Non-Fungible Doubt
- Jun 20, 2021
Niggas in here writings essays over this
