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I think the issue of copyright is actually a stand-in for the larger and much more pressing issue of monetization.
Famous musicians on Spotify barely make a buck. They have to do concerts and sell merch to make money.
YouTubers can’t make sustainable money off of millions of views. It’s brand deals that make the real money.
Chefs can’t copyright their recipes but they have premium on service and craft.
Fashion designers can’t copyright designs but materials and craft are defensible and they can trademark brand.
Open source is a fascinating ecosystem where people freely give away their hard work and IP into a shared ecosystem. And yet, companies have figured out how to monetize in that ecosystem (albeit astronomically smaller than the proprietary software world).
I think the internet massively abstracted away a persons copyright from the way they can monetize that work. But it’s evident these dynamics already were there for decades. Technically, the idea of copyright as we know it today is less than a hundred years old.
We are sorely in need of companies that find more ways that get people to create new things. Some ecosystems (like tech) have extremely liquid systems (acquire, acquihire, fundraise, etc.). I’m curious if AI will accelerate the need to have more liquidity and financialization across more industries as traditional ways to make money in those industries collapse as the means of labor, production, white collar work, and compensation collapses.
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