Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Katherine Trendacosta
“At its core, copyright is a monopoly right on creative output and expression. It’s intended to allow people who make things to make a living through those things, to incentivize creativity. To square the circle that is ‘exclusive control over expression’ and ‘free speech,’ we have fair use. However, we aren’t just seeing artists having a time-limited ability to make money off of their creations. We are also seeing large corporations turn into megacorporations and consolidating huge stores of copyrights under one umbrella. When the monopoly right granted by copyright is compounded by the speed and scale of media company mergers, we end up with a crisis in creativity.” (01/21/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copyright-should-not-enable-monopoly