Nina Paley

This brings to mind Nina Paley's "Copyright is Brain Damage": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc Paley is in the process of creating an epic animated story, using music appropriated with out rights, as a protest piece against copyright. She addresses the question somewhat at her blog: http://blog.ninapaley.com/?s=copyright+is+brain+damage&submit.x=0&… If you're looking for a transcript, I'm not aware of one, though Techdirt addresses some of the points raised: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151022/23582332603/nina-paley-argu…

Thanks, pretty sweet. Edit: probably a niche issue for most, but this is worth a read... http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/09/27/dear-internet-we-need-better-imag…

The original article is a great read: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality/

See "Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide" by Nina Paley: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/

Thanks, but it's not my poem! You can find it here: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/15/minute-meme-1-copying-is-not-the…

What Nina actually posted: https://mimiandeunice.com/2018/11/07/the-jenndra-identitty-comics/ https://blog.ninapaley.com/2018/02/07/gender_colonialism/

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/ is a nice text about the rival/non-rival nature of things.

To help categorize and understand: I'd characterize your argument as the "Stallman" argument, where the simplicity of copying justifies the moral argument against copyright. There is a alternate vein which doesn't have to do with value or scarcity, but which has to do with rivalrousness (that is a very subtle distinction): http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/ You may find it interesting.

My views on the matter are complicated and probably a bit conflicted. But for a cute presentation of a particular alternate viewpoint: http://blog.ninapaley.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/NA_InventionOfWor…

The clearest call for copyright civil disobedience: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/

"The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains." --Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri blind Arabian philosopher, poet - circa 11th century what has any of this to do with "Hacker News"?[shrug] ah well, if anyone wants to understand anything about middle east history they ought to start with Nina Paley: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/

This contract echoes the story of Nina Palin's attempt to get her Free (creative-commons share-alike) movie "Sita Sings the Blues" on netflix streaming without DRM. Netflix refused. They even refused to let her put a title-card at the start of the movie telling viewers that the movie was free to download from other sources. http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/04/23/turning-down-netflix/ Three years later she went full CC-0 (public domain) with the movie because the hassle of dealing with other entities who simply couldn't understand the share-alike license was too much. http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/01/18/ahimsa-sita-sings-the-blues-now-c… For anyone considering watching her movie - Roger Ebert rated it very highly. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sita-sings-the-blues-2009

You’re assuming that “women” asked for the full package of changes we ended up with. I’d argue that their focus was more on being able to vote and being able to have bank accounts, and the sexual revolution was driven more by liberal men than by a broad coalition of women: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/08/23/andrea-dworkin-on-the-sexual-rev… (“Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revolution was that it had gotten into the hands of the wrong people. He was right. It was in the hands of men.”). The package of changes was “women get to be able to act like men, in the workplace and in dating,” without regard to women’s distinct realities and preferences in both spheres. More over, the disconnect here isn’t between what “women” want and what they say they want. The disconnect is between the beliefs and attitudes of a minority of elite liberal men and women, and the average woman, especially the average non-college educated woman.