sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.org · 5 months agoElon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge saysarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge saysarstechnica.comsabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.org · 5 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoJudge Alsup isn’t wrong. Yet Disney routinely writes its own copyright laws and has Congress pass them. Musk is just trying to cut out the middle step.
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agodisney isn’t inventing laws; congress is passing laws, which is how it’s supposed to work.
minus-squareEldestMalk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agohttps://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/ https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?cycle=2021&id=D000000128#:~:text=Walt Disney Co spent $4345000 lobbying in 2021. See the bills it lobbied.
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agolobbying has been how laws get passed for years; it’s how most civil rights got passed.
Judge Alsup isn’t wrong. Yet Disney routinely writes its own copyright laws and has Congress pass them. Musk is just trying to cut out the middle step.
disney isn’t inventing laws; congress is passing laws, which is how it’s supposed to work.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?cycle=2021&id=D000000128#:~:text=Walt Disney Co spent $4345000 lobbying in 2021. See the bills it lobbied.
lobbying has been how laws get passed for years; it’s how most civil rights got passed.