But if you abolish #copyright, there will be no #FreeSoftware. The GPL and all free software licenses, as well as #CreativeCommons licenses would become invalid, unenforceable, and obsolete. That doesn't sound like a better world to me.

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nostr:npub1mlsm5mv52wg0ppu8nsxwv6fsuls28ht0480480kd4cju28fu356s0fl9pg A simple start would be to deny it to corporations, or at least vastly restrict it to them. And certainly reduce durations to to a decade or so...

I feel like that would eliminate most current complaints.

nostr:npub1mlsm5mv52wg0ppu8nsxwv6fsuls28ht0480480kd4cju28fu356s0fl9pg perhaps instead require that instead of "all rights reserved," the rightsholder can define conditions within certain bounds (todo: what bounds?), which would ideally include things such as attribution, how it's allowed to be modified, or certain cases it can't be used (i.e. in or adjacent to the line of duty of law enforcement, or in promotional material).