Abolish copyright.
@joepie91 or at the very least, revert the rules back to the statute of anne
@Rairii It doesn't actually do any of that in practice
@Rairii Like, that's the problem, this is what it's *promised* to do, but it just... doesn't.
For all practical purposes there *are* no such protections today, and copyright is only *claimed* to be such a protection as a shield from criticism, even though it is a tool of power that only benefits the wealthy
@joepie91 i will argue that it CAN be... if you have the time to repeatedly look everywhere and send takedown requests.. which tha majority of smaller creators do not.
but yes, definitely broken.
@joepie91 that may be true
but thanks to big tech moving fast and breaking things i believe it's currently the only way (other than trademarks, and applications for those can be contested and cost money to file, etc) to deal with smaller creators' work being shanzhai'd (typically on alibaba/aliexpress followed by dropshippers putting listings up everywhere else)
i mean, i'd be happy if i was wrong here...