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Imagine if this was copyrighted, now imagine a million things even more trivial than this were copyrighted. That is the current state of affairs with copyrights and patents in tech
~~It is copyrighted lol. That's why you don't see that specific design much anymore.~~ I was sure I read somewhere that the design was in copyright hell, which is why it isn't used anymore. Looks like I'm wrong.
Edit: actually, after looking more into this guy, the design is public domain. He made a whopping $45 off the design while others have made millions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiley_Company
I think this is the company that owns or owned some trademarks related to a smiley face.
That's how it usually goes, one person works and creates something, then some other person makes a shitton of money off of it
The people who argue against copyright need to understand that one of the functions of copyright is to prevent companies with deep pockets from taking the profits you deserve for your hard work.
"people who argue against copyright" tend to be pretty well informed on the history of it, and aware of the way it's used today. Generally, they argue that it is not performing that function, and may often work the other way around.
One of the advantages of copyleft, shame the only people who only know about it are the weirdos who use Lemmy.
I'm not sure how official "copyleft" is, but it reads like the creative commons licence which which falls under copyright.
So yes, one of the advantages, and explicit purposes, of copyright is that you get to maintain control of how your intellectual property is used.
Pretty easy to imagine. The smiley face is copyrighted.
Yeah, that's their point.