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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @NMamatas @iridienne @schanoes

      Whatever your personal feelings on the matter, a copyright term less than the lifetime of the author is an obvious political non-starter All that it takes to build support for strengthening copyright is one story of a celebrated author living in dire poverty

      1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
    2. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Mar 4
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NMamatas @schanoes

      Sure! So i'm willing to compromise on "life of the author".

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Mar 4
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and

      (I mean, lots of authors -- even important and famous ones! -- ALREADY live in dire poverty, and having the rights to their work doesn't help a damn bit. One, a dearly beloved and brilliant author in his 80s, is a friend of mine.)

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    4. Nick Disband the Police Mamatas  🤼‍♂️ 🏴‏Verified account @NMamatas Mar 4
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect @schanoes

      Having the right does actually help, since now, unlike in the 19th century, nobody can casually make a stage version of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN that is pro-slavery and that becomes more popular than the novel.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. Nick Disband the Police Mamatas  🤼‍♂️ 🏴‏Verified account @NMamatas Mar 4
      Replying to @NMamatas @iridienne and

      And the reality is that some people only keep producing despite the poverty in the hope that their surviving spouse and children will benefit. Jim Thompson comes immediately to mind (and it worked)!

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    6. Nick Disband the Police Mamatas  🤼‍♂️ 🏴‏Verified account @NMamatas Mar 4
      Replying to @NMamatas @iridienne and

      Frankly, the discussion around shrinking the copyright term is just like the discussion against raising the minimum wage. The poors are still gonna be poor, but what about the rich people who might need to spend a few more bucks for get their megacorps running?

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    7. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Mar 4
      Replying to @NMamatas @arthur_affect @schanoes

      Believe it or not, i really am actually concerned about the commons. I don't think it's reasonable or fair to *the entire rest of society* to have all the "IP" locked up for literal generations after people keel over.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. Nick Disband the Police Mamatas  🤼‍♂️ 🏴‏Verified account @NMamatas Mar 4
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect @schanoes

      Copyright doesn't "lock." One, because most rights can be had very inexpensively, two, because of significant fair use provisions that other types of IP don't have. To the extent that fair use has been weakened, that's megacorps at work, not copyright holders.

      3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    9. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Mar 4
      Replying to @NMamatas @iridienne and

      I mean those fair use provisions have been expanded beyond their intended scope because they’re duct taping the whole system together so it can still function despite effectively perpetual copyright terms

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @Cybren @NMamatas and

      "Long copyright terms + expansive fair use" really does seem like the consensus, such as it is, of what everyone thinks the law currently says and what most ordinary people think it should say

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      The problem is as soon as you specifically try to define fair use you open what appears to be a can of worms but is actually a portable gateway to the Nether Realm of Ravenous Worms Beyond Number

      10:37 PM - 4 Mar 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 4
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

          But if you ask most people what they think I think you'd get a consensus that "You should be able to do anything you want with a book right away as long as you're not cheating the author's right to make a living from it, which they should have as long as humanly possible"

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Mar 4
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NMamatas and

          And while we’re at it if I’m buying a license to use the software and not ownership over the individual copy of software that should be transferrable to all platforms!!!!

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        1. Travis, The Absurdist! ™️‏ @AbsurdistTravis Mar 4
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

          Those worms are good guys, they always get a bad shake across the Liminal Space and in this reali- I mean, yeah, yeah, that's a serious problem, and in no way was I talking about literal realm or ravenous worms...pic.twitter.com/b049e0YR6M

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