[MattPalmer1086]

Lengthy copyright may be uncompetitive, but the absence of it would also be surely? If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

Can you explain your reasoning?

[danielheath]

> If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

There's already numerous posts from artists claiming their work was copied verbatim (or near-verbatim) by major corps. Fighting it in court will take years and cost a fortune they don't have.

[MattPalmer1086]

That may be, but is the solution to get rid of what little protection they legally have?

[danielheath]

If it's not protecting them, and it's causing other harms?

[MattPalmer1086]

You would have to demonstrate that the harms far outweigh the goods for all works protected by copyright, not just the poor artists you mention.

Law is never perfect. I agree if it does more harm than good for most then it should be replaced.

[Hamuko]

>If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

Isn't that the entire basis of OpenAI and GPT?