• nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    The greatest trick capitalists ever pulled is convincing creative individuals that copyright and patents exist to serve and protect their interests.

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I think the problem is allowing corporations to own the copyright. We should make it so that only the original creator of something can copyright it for ten years.

      • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I’d go one further and remove a corporation’s status of personhood.

        An immortal, amoral, artificial entity should never have been granted parity status with people in our society.

  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I think the professor himself is fed up with the situation, because as a researcher he is forced to publish his articles to for-profit publishers, who are basically the mafia gatekeepers, who profit from information that should be open to everyone. And the university profits from this lucrative business.

    This Youtube video will open your eyes to this business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

    • Adda@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.