People Laws

I was having one of my internal debates about whether or I believe in copyright laws especially as they pertain to artistic production. And before I get to my extended idea, I'd probably say that in reality all I want is a huge extension of fair use laws. Like for example I can do almost anything I want as long as I'm not making money off of it or something. In such an instance I'd be redefining 'fair' as something like I'm allowed to listen to all the music I want without having to pay for it. But onto idea proper:

Copyrights should be totally non-transferable. And to such an extent that the sole creators should always have the rights to them. Main point of is: corporations can't hold copyrights. They should probably be assured of some use of the copyright, but they shouldn't ever actually have them. I'm willing to concede this little bit because clearly if a corporation is housing, fostering and otherwise giving the person space to create the thing worthy of copyrighting, they clearly have a stake in it as well and should be compensating. But I just don't think that creation should ever be taken from the person. (Again, see above about fair use and what it would mean to 'take' something.)

What I'm asking for here is a difference between what can be granted to an institution or corporation and to a person or group of persons. Even a group of persons are still particular persons. Corporations start to float away, they have rights that aren't tied down to specific people. And as such they have lives of their own that can be bad for me and me. Anyways. Harsh laws for corporation. They know how to exploit so should be reigned in. Each people could theoretically do that too. But I guess I'm envisioning a world in which rights are so well tied to individuals that single powerful ones couldn't do the evil things corporations seem capable of doing in this day and age without batting too many eyes.

Anyways. Same ol' tirade. I want things for free. And I'm happy to share my things. I do in fact have some too. Enjoy. Use them fairly. Thanks me. That's all.