Yeah, it would put Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter out of business as well. I wouldn’t worry too much.
Yeah, no worries man, what’s the big deal?
The Silicon Valley corporations you mentioned all are worth billions. They can afford royalty fee schemes for using / redistributing copyright content.
Little guy alternate media news sites / political activist sites like FR, Town Hall, and others we rely on would find content use and sharing royalty fees to be hugely burdensome.
RE: “Yeah, it would put Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter out of business as well. I wouldn’t worry too much.”
“Yeah, it would put Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter out of business as well. I wouldn’t worry too much.”
On the contrary, the 20th Century Berne Convention and changes in U.S. Copyright have been eroding and destroying the very foundation of Human civilization. One of the key attributes which has made Humans so successful and prolific as an adaptive species of lifeform has been its ability to communicate the knowledge and experience gained in a current and previous generations to the successor generations. This ability to faithfully communicate knowledge to current and future generations is an inalienable right Humanity requires to maintain and improve civilization. The inalienable right to free speech is a recognition of the need to protect the communication of knowledge in order to protect and improve civilization. The 1st Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the right to free speech, yet the Constitution also granted Congress the power to give the creators of original works a form of temporary monopoly in the form of copyrights and patents to encourage their creation. These temporary monopolies infringed upon the 1st Amendment right of free speech to an extent limited by Congress, foreign states, and international agreements by treating the works as intangible assets or intangible properties that can be bought and sold in ways similar to tangible properties. During the 20th Century, however, the proprietary property owners prevailed upon Congress to renege on the original purpose and method of encouraging the creation of the works for a temporary monopoly by in effect making some of these monopolies permanent during any one lifetime or generation of Human civilization for most intents and purposes. The end result is the increasing loss of these original works and/or their inaccessibility to most of the Human civilization who could benefit from such proprietary and free knowledge.
Another problem has been the deliberate creation of a system which requires the securing of copyright permissions without also providing a means by which it can be determined who to contact for the copyright permission, where to contact the copyright owner, or whether or not the copyright has been abandoned by the death of the copyright owners and heirs or the dissolution of the corporate owner. Legal access to a work can be lost due to an inability to gain practical access to the information necessary to contact the parties necessary to negotiate copyright permissions.
These and many other problems are stifling the ability to keep countless works in publication where civilization can benefit from continued access to such works. In the end, the 1st Amendment right to free speech is being gravely impeded by the way in which Congress overreaches the temporary grants of these monopolies and makes them virtual permanent grants of monopolies that defeat the ability to pass the knowledge in such works to future generations and civilizations.