GrapheneOS account calls for copyright to be abolished
The account argued that copyright causes more harm than good, alleging it protects corporate monopolies and limits how people use their property.
A GrapheneOS account has argued that copyright should be abolished, claiming the system causes more harm than good.
The position was published on the GrapheneOS Mastodon account on 9 September and reported via Hacker News. The account alleged that copyright does little in practice to protect the livelihoods of individuals and small businesses.
Instead, it claimed copyright is used by large corporations to protect monopolies and to remove content that does not infringe copyright.
The account also alleged that copyright restricts people’s ability to use, repair, modify and back up their property. It added that special exceptions for large corporations predated the emergence of large language models.
The supplied material presents the statements as the account’s views and does not establish that they represent every GrapheneOS contributor or a formal organisational policy. The claims were not independently substantiated in the material provided.
