2026-09-28 19:33 UTC
It's precisely because labor rights get workers benefits at their bosses' expense that copyright cannot that we have been subjected to generations of pro-copyright messaging, told that we aren't workers at all - we're small businesses, LLCs with MFAs!
Creative workers have been taken for a ride. We've been told that we're not workers, so we shouldn't advocate for labor rights.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:33
We've been told that copyright is *better* than labor rights, because copyright is a *property* right. It puts a price on your work, which means you can get paid. But prices are things we assign to things that are so worthless that we can say what they're worth. The most valuable things in the world aren't property, and describing them as property would cheapen them. Human beings aren't property. 42/