Dismantling the megaconglomerates' excessive rents and freeing up vast swaths of content for fair use looks exciting. That being said, the "exclusivity" that you talk about is relevant only for people who are famous, so I still see some downsides for people with lower profiles. For instance, an animated cartoon creator could have all their cartoons reuploaded onto another account with no recourse.
There are some great protections you pointed out. I imagine blockchain's proof of authenticity being integrated into our application interfaces, first as third-party browser extensions, and later built-in to browsers and mobile apps. For example, before you donate to someone, YouTube or PayPal or etc would verify that you're donating to the original creator of the content.
But when it comes to consuming content, people will happily do it without respect for the original creator. The reputation, views, and advertising dollars that would otherwise accrue for the creator will often be directed to some other source. I suppose there's an underlying discussion about our values here; perhaps if we decide that people have the right to consume anything that's been created then this is a fine outcome.
And going back to the movie industry, it does seem fair that if Disney invested billions in producing, promoting, and distributing a movie they alone should reap the rewards i.e. someone else shouldn't be able to upload it for free watches. This seems like a basic notion of property rights, no? How does erasing this right coexist with your libertarian principles?
Dismantling the megaconglomerates' excessive rents and freeing up vast swaths of content for fair use looks exciting. That being said, the "exclusivity" that you talk about is relevant only for people who are famous, so I still see some downsides for people with lower profiles. For instance, an animated cartoon creator could have all their cartoons reuploaded onto another account with no recourse.
There are some great protections you pointed out. I imagine blockchain's proof of authenticity being integrated into our application interfaces, first as third-party browser extensions, and later built-in to browsers and mobile apps. For example, before you donate to someone, YouTube or PayPal or etc would verify that you're donating to the original creator of the content.
But when it comes to consuming content, people will happily do it without respect for the original creator. The reputation, views, and advertising dollars that would otherwise accrue for the creator will often be directed to some other source. I suppose there's an underlying discussion about our values here; perhaps if we decide that people have the right to consume anything that's been created then this is a fine outcome.
And going back to the movie industry, it does seem fair that if Disney invested billions in producing, promoting, and distributing a movie they alone should reap the rewards i.e. someone else shouldn't be able to upload it for free watches. This seems like a basic notion of property rights, no? How does erasing this right coexist with your libertarian principles?