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RE: [steemtools] automatic failover for witness nodes
The Unlicence! I am so pleased to see another user using this licence. Creative work is a highly speculative endeavour, copyright does not in fact help any up and coming artist, because they don't have the money to pay lawyers, which, even if they did, it is questionable what benefit this has to the economy as a whole.
So the whole concept, in my opinion, should be scrapped. False attribution is the only crime that connects with this, it is clearly fraud.
The whole concept of licensing is what you're talking about right?
I got a bit lost in your train of thought :)
It is predicated on a claim of exclusive rights distribution for something that costs practically nothing to reproduce, in a market where subjectivity dictates price more clearly. Art can be expensive to produce but worth nothing because nobody wants it.
And more importantly, it does not benefit new artists who by definition are generally poor. Owning copyright is not bound to the creator, and this overly empowers them to suppress competition and which artists get access to their distribution system and by this allows censorship.
Thus, copyright is not for artists at all, but for curators. The internet renders the need for these distribution controllers. Artists do not depend on these businesses anymore and the privilege has been blatantly abused for political ends. In fact, this is why citation is such an integral component of Steem's architecture, and why the greatest amount of changes have been made to counter methods of exploiting it.