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Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. (www.nintendo.co.jp)

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[-] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In a capitalist economy copyright is meant to protect people's livelihoods by ensuring they are compensated for their labor

Whose propaganda did you suck down blindly? Copyright is meant to foster and improve the commons and public domain, and only that. The goal of copyright is not "money" and monopolies, but that's what capitalism does to things designated as property.

The fact you can transfer and sell your copyright (because it's property in capitalism), it becomes a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. If copyright was not tradeable or transferable, we wouldn't be in in this situation where art is property to be owned.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Whose propaganda did you suck down blindly?

Chill out a bit, my comment could not have possibly given you the impression that I'm a supporter of capitalism if you had read it carefully. I began my comment by putting forward the capitalist argument for copyright - a steel-man argument - and ended it by debunking it.

Copyright is meant to foster and improve the commons and public domain

You said yourself that copyright establishes art as private property (or "intellectual property" if we're being more precise). That does the opposite of fostering and improving the commons and public domain.