The following article may very well blow the roof off the whole debate on copyright and give a valid reason for it's abolition.
Privacy.
This exact thing is a very huge concern for the majority of the population. In recent years, people have become very concerned about being spied on and their private data sold to corporations, especially with shady spots like the Utah Data Center, which is reported to have trillions of terabytes of private data.
Now many will be asking the question, "What does any of this have to do with copyright? Those laws are to protect the works of people and corporations."
That's exactly what I'm trying to get at. Copyright makes information, which is and always has been intangible, proprietary and many things, especially source code and recipes are kept from the public's eye. How does this tie in with privacy concerns? Well, first you have to take into account the previously mentioned fact. Corporations keep proprietary source code out of the public's view and punish those who distribute it. Now, the major point about it being a privacy issue is the fact that you cannot see what corporations put into the source code of their products, making it impossible to tell if they're selling your info or not. Think about it, if all software was open-source, transparency would protect all from everything done behind closed doors. Everyone could freely check the code to make sure there's no secret data collection algorithm.
The same thing applies to food, drink and drugs. The label may tell you the ingredients, but unless the recipe is public and updated in real-time, who knows? They could be sneaking drops of rat poison into consumables without the public's knowledge. The FDA will not even let us study genetically-modified organisms, which are unpredictable in the nature of how the human body reacts to them.
With the introduction of the EARN IT Act, the 1st and 4th amendment rights of everyone are threatened in the name of "protecting children", an obvious ruse to undermine the constitution.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
The bottom line is that so much evil is done in the dark. If we were to abolish copyright laws and make everything in the past, present and future public domain, it would not only mean safety for all of us, but for future generations as well.
~Noah Bangs
Copyright and patents were designed to make it possible for people to publish information. Prior to this laws, companies and trade organizations kept all of their information secret.
Patent laws allow a limited monopoly provided that the trade organization publishes the information behind a product.
Your understanding of open source is naive as well. Open source is used to wipe small software developers off the face of the earth so that megacorporations can dominate the people.
The biggest benefactors of Open Source are Amazon, Google and Microsoft who mine open source efforts to dominate the world.
I assume that you are an avid follower of Hegel and Marx. You simply flip arguments upside. You proclaim freedom to be slavery and slavery to be freedom and spew forth nonsense claiming that we must have institutionalized slavery to achieve ultimate freedom.
The spirit of copyright laws might help use solve some of the problems with the surveillance state. Big Tech is actually violating our rights to the data we generate when they collect data on our individual activities.
Privacy and copyright converge, but in the opposite of what you espouse. Copyright exists to give us control over what information we release to the public and when we release.
There may be need to change copyright laws. The laws should favor individuals over big tech. But the idea is sound.
Here is a good question. Do you want your current location to be released into the public domain? Crooks that know your current location would know the best time to rob your house.
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