• Apinae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Surely there are more important things to teach kids than something that mostly serves the interests of large corporations

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      1 year ago

      No small creators would exist without copyright. It doesn’t just serve large corporations. Tom Scott has an in-depth video on copyright as it relates to small Internet creators.

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Knowing copyright laws can help you as an engineer, an artist and many other situations. Knowing this will equip you agains corporations.

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      I agree, of course, that many large corporations profit obscenely from copyright. But copyrights are also the livelihood of many small time players: from social media content creators, to artists and writers, to software developers and scientists.