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"So the notion that creativity can be owned, and that any use of someone else’s ideas requires..."

“So the notion that creativity can be owned, and that any use of someone else’s ideas requires compensation, is nothing but an attempt to steal all of creativity. Whoever can pay their lawyers the most wins. Anyone smell pirates in the room? I am not willing to sacrifice this generation’s great artists on the altar of Hollywood. I’m not willing to have the next Bach, Beethoven, or Shakespeare post their work online, only to have it taken down because they haven’t paid off a bunch of executives who think they own creativity.”<br/><br/> -

This is exactly the same approach that Monsanto uses to try to gain a stranglehold on the world’s food supply. Is there a word for greed amplified to this scale? Satanic, perhaps? Venal, at a minimum.

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