>>7671

>The idea of copyright is to give financial incentive for someone to create new work


No its not. Its a pretense to "sell" that bullshit to the general public and justify it. Copyright is NOT giving any incentive to create NEW work, because by monopolising who can copy it, you can sell the same OLD work over and over and keep making profit from it.

I agree with you that the latest abscess of this is the extension of music copyright so global corporations that bought the rights can keep making profits even decades after the artists who made it have died. But even the original 20 years span was 20 years of wrongness.

There is always demand for new creative work, there is no need to monopolize monetarisation of existing old work. Especially in these days.

In Van Gogh's time, in order to present an art piece to a wider public, you needed to either travel a lot, or get your work exhibited in a place that was regularly frequented by a wider public (Or at least the rhich and mighty)
If you were not known, that was barely possible, as such the entry hurdle to become a successful artist was very high.

Nowadays everyone can present their works to the whole world on sites like DeviantArt and the like. New digital artists don't need museums and exhibitions. The result is an explosion of works.
Also these platforms allow artists to find commissioners around the world. Its a healthy environment. Lots of works, lots of competition, lots of exposure.

These platforms have become possible not because of copyright, but despite of copyright, thanks to liberal, open licenses that allow everyone to view (which means download screen resolution digital copies) of all these arts.

Copyright only has a benefit once an artist is already famous and sought after. Once he is known, because then he can paywall all his crap and get filthy rich by charging everyone who wants to see it without the need to actually make anything substantially new.

This is a perversion of "give financial incentive for someone to create new work". Its the exact opposite. No matter how often this lie gets reiterated, its still a lie!

You know what works? Artists who say "you like what you see? Join my patreon, and everytime I get $X together, I make another piece, but everyone gets to see it."

This is the one model that makes everyone happy, including the artist. And to work, it needs no fucking copyright at all.