There are still cases of small artists getting compensation for big business using their images or music without consent. But sadly it is far from the norm.

I agree with your core sentiment. Copyright is not working how it was intended and it is being abused by corporations.

It might be because I'm not American, or because I am a musician and songwriter myself. but I still see a point to having some laws protecting the rights of the creative mind behind something.

Removing copyright completely will only make it even more easy for the guys with the money and resources to exploit the small independent creators.

But (American) copyright is severely broken. This is true.

A starting point would be that the right is only tied to the specific creative(s) actually involved in the creation of something.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

While I understand where you're coming from and the hope you may have in copyright, we don't agree. I firmly believe copyrights are a cancer, an aberration that can only worsen things, especially in the age of Internet.

The paternity right (that's how what's you referring to in your last sentence is called in France) may not be completely harmful, but history proves it's useless imo.