2026-09-28 19:30 UTC
Over those 50 years, media companies have gotten richer and more profitable while the creative workers whose art these media companies sell have gotten poorer, both in real terms and as a share of the earnings our labor generates for our bosses. This seems like a paradox at first, but really, it's just a built-in feature of property law: that people who have assets but lack bargaining leverage end up selling those assets for peanuts.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:31
In a market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two app companies and one ebook/audiobook company, giving a creative worker more to bargain *with* is just giving them more to bargain *away*. Giving us more copyright is like giving a bullied schoolkid more lunch money: no amount of lunch money will get that kid fed. 30/