The current U.S. copyright system is broken. Our laws for creative works like books, songs, and movies make art-monopolizing corporations like Disney,

End Creative Monopolies

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2021-08-05 12:30:04

The current U.S. copyright system is broken. Our laws for creative works like books, songs, and movies make art-monopolizing corporations like Disney, News Corp, Spotify, and Amazon richer at the expense of artists. We demand change.

I am deeply concerned by the concentration of artists’ rights and opportunities in monopolistic corporations and investor funds. While creative monopolies are posting record profits, the artists themselves are struggling. I support a drastic reimagining of artists’ rights that will put artists first and help them reclaim their power from exploitative Big Content companies like Instagram, Amazon, News Corp, Spotify, and Disney.

The US copyright system currently enables creative monopolies to harm creators, oppress emerging artists, profiteer off of art, and undermine basic rights and social change. Copyright is incompatible with modern society and broken for all of us because it is rigged to benefit corporate monopolies. Creators and the public alike are harmed while rich corporations get richer. I demand the dissolution of the current US copyright system and a fundamental reimagination of artists' rights and protections for the 21st century that shifts power away from creative monopolies and puts the interests of artists and the public first.

Whether you are a musician or an author, or work in a wholly different medium, the gap between creative monopolies’ profits and the struggles of artists they are supposed to support is striking. This blatant monopolization of creative culture and exploitation of workers across the broad spectrum of creativity is enabled by the current U.S. copyright system.

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