Also "cooperative social structures" are power structures, call them republican goberment, teocracia, oligarqy, etc. If the livelihood of the artist depents entirely of a power structure, the arts become propaganda, really fast.
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Im not arguing in favor of copyright capitalism models, im pointing out that just fucking with the sistem without a real solution is not better.
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Even if I completely accepted that a certain technological landscape mandates a certain business model, the original "Luddites" under Ned Ludd were a *workers' revolt* determined to *delay* the inevitable evaporation of their livelihood by any means necessary
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And it's actually kind of pernicious to just cast them as ignorant fools and villains of history and take the side of the consumers by taking the side of the capitalists
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I mean, advances are a standard industry practice in trad publishing, and protecting the idea of advances and protecting authors against clawbacks in their contracts is a huge part of what unions like the NWU or SFWA do
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If you think they should be going harder than that and demanding that every current NWU member get a stipend from the government for writing a minimum number of words per year ("single-payer publishing"), well, good luck convincing the leadership of that
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I dunno how to explain this if people still don't get it but SFWA, NWU, the Authors Guild, etc are *labor unions* That's literally what they are, the NWU is even an AFL-CIO affiliate The framing of them as capitalist industry associations ("idea landlords") is pernicious
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When NWU says they believe the Internet Archive is in breach of their terms for selling their labor, and you use the Emergency Free Library anyway while NWU members still have books up on it, you're crossing a picket line
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... what do you think is writing, or drawning?
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