You have drank so much koolaid that you think you’re not a working class creator, you’re a temporarily embarrassed Taylor Swift.

The accumulation, gatekeeping, and rent extraction is the point of the system, and if you think it’s a system that’s made to protect the little guy, just look around yourself.

I can’t stop you from doing anything else with it. I can’t stop you from burning it, eating it, fucking it, shooting it, or using it as a door stop. I only have the power to prevent you from redistributing it.

But you can stop me. Because copyright law legally protects any DRM you want to place over that, and breaking it is copyright infringement regardless of the final purpose of it. And “noone will know if I don’t distribute it” is not an answer.

Sure. You say that like it’s a bad thing, but that’s why inventors can do what they do and survive.

No, like I said, I believe it should exist, I just believe it should be reduced significantly.

I’m an inventor. If I didn’t have my patent, Google could just come and take my idea, build their own version, and undercut me. Isn’t that a worse monopoly? As it stands, if Google wants to sell my product, they have to buy my patent. That’s a great system that protects small inventors like me.

Good for you. You’ll offer me a beer when you make your first billion. But you won’t.

The IP system is part of the reason why the tech sector is now so consolidated. Your patent would have been a lot more valuable in a more competitive world.

Correct. The states invented them because of a problem.

So, intellectual property is not like “normal” property of limited physical goods. We finally agree on something.

I should be able to profit off of my works for my entire life. Arguably, my heirs should be able to benefit from my works too. If I don’t have a fortune to give them, because I’m not a capitalist pig, at least they can benefit from my hard work.

My father worked in a factory his entire life. How come I don’t get continuous revenue from his work, but you expect your heirs to?

You want multi-generational profit from work you are completely done with. You actually are a capitalist pig, you’re just a less successful one.

copyright being automatic is necessary to prevent the system from being abused even more.

A 90 year automatic copyright means that the overwhelming majority of works produced in the last 100 years are orphan works. Stuff which you can’t use, but you can’t even tell who, if anyone, still has the copyright. The combination of a shorter automatic term with a registration-based extension would solve that.

You’ve clearly never been through the patent process. They went over my patent with a fine toothed comb. I went through three rounds of revision and had to take an entire section of claims out (because it might have been too close to an existing patent, which I thought was ridiculous, but whatever). I spoke with the patent examiner who absolutely had read my entire application and understood it very well.

Yeah, I am not in the US, but I do read US patents on a regular basis. While I can only speak for my field, I see the kind if crap that the USPO passes as if it’s valid, and it’s quite frankly embarrassing. Yes, an existing patent can be a hurdle. But the fact that the invention is totally trivial to a person “trained in the art” or even already published, does not seem to be a problem.

Very often US patents can’t be converted into patents into other jurisdictions, or half the claims gets struck down.

And I have seen the exact same (trivial) invention patented twice by different companies, because the stated purpose of it was slightly different. A fictional difference as in practice both products are exactly interchangeable and do the same work.

And let’s not even get into the whole nonsense of gene patenting.

But no problem here, let’s patent physical laws next.

Just because you don’t like Disney doesn’t mean that copyright laws are broken. Yeah, Disney kinda sucks lately.

It’s not just Disney. It’s everything and everyone. Nintendo? Sega? Are Alien sequels being made because they are such great ideas or because it’s profitable to milk the IPs?

It’s just too easy for them to extract value from existing IPs, to be bothered with putting the same money into new stuff.

If you don’t like giving to the creators whose work you are building on, just come up with your own ideas. Tons of artists use their own original content.

Lol, just say you have no idea how jazz works, or that you don’t like this kind of degenerate art. You’ll be in good company.

And jazz is just an example of the kind of “remix art” that have been fundamental to cultural development of the 20th century.