My boyfriend kept trying to ask me who benefited and why they would want this and I kept trying to explain that there’s a lobby that fetishes copyright maximalism by any means necessary and he just got frustrated. “Why?? Who are these people??? Why????” https://twitter.com/blakereid/status/1341453554419081216

Me explaining who dinosaur jr is did not clarify matters

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to actually grapple with how little it makes sense that this frankly cultish lobby is so powerful

Also it’s really funny to me when people start yelling at me about artists and incentives like I’m not a literal creator of copyrighted works and a lawyer who rewrote the copyright provisions of her freelance contract

artists yelling about their copyrights who are also missing out on 3/4 of their royalties because they don’t actually know copyright law, which is overly complicated and that’s why the artists are getting fucked over, not because of a *lack* of legislation

the nebulous bullshit in this omnibus probably won’t put food on your table, no matter how many times you chant “copyright good” to yourself. you know what would have? recurring stimulus payments.