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Amaro Koberle’s avatar
Amaro Koberle·​#1402·​·​Criticism

Copyright just seems so arbitrary to me. The whole edifice of law around it. Why 70 years after the author's death? What's "original"? When is it "my own words?"

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
Dennis Hackethal·​#1404·​·​Criticism

What's "original"?

Drawing stick figures is not, writing down a completely new text with new concepts is. There are some gray areas but again (#1403), that doesn’t mean copyright doesn’t make sense as a whole.

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