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As if copyright wasn't bad enough of a [cancer](cancer.md), **there usually exist extra oppressive copyright-like restrictions called related rights or neighboring rights such as "[moral rights](moral_rights.md)", "[personal rights](personal_rights.md)" etc.** Such "rights" differ a lot by country and can be used to restrict and censor even copyright-free works. This is a stuff that makes you want to commit [suicide](suicide.md). Waivers such as [CC0](cc0.md) try to waive copyright as well as neighboring rights (to what extent neighboring rights can be waived is debatable though).
The current extreme form of copyright (as well as other types of IP such as software patents) has been highly criticized by many people, even those whom it's supposed to "protect" (small game creators, musicians etc.). Strong copyright laws basically benefit mainly [corporations](corporation.md) and "trolls" on the detriment of everyone else. It smothers creativity and efficiency by prohibiting people to reuse, remix and improve already existing works -- something that's crucial for art, science, education and generally just making any kind of progress. Most people are probably for *some* form of copyright but still oppose the current extreme form which is pretty crazy: **copyright applies to everything without any registration or notice and last usually 70 years (!!!) AFTER the author has died (!!!)** and is already rotting in the ground. This is 100 years in some countries. In some countries it is not even possible to waive copyright to own creations -- just think about what kind of twisted society we are living in when it PROHIBITS people from making a selfless donation of their own creations to others. Some people, including [us](lrs.md), are against the very idea of copyright (those may either use waivers such as [CC0](cc0.md) or [unlicense](unlicense.md) or protest by not using any licenses and simply ignoring copyright which however will actually discourage other people from reusing their works). Though copyright was originally intended to ensure artists can make living with their works, it has now become the tool of states and corporations for universal censorship, control, bullying, surveillance, creating scarcity and [bullshit jobs](bullshit_job.md); states can use copyright to for example take down old politically inconvenient books shared on the Internet even if such takedowns do absolute not serve protection of anyone's living but purely political interests.
The current extreme form of copyright (as well as other types of IP such as software patents) has been highly criticized by many people, even those whom it's supposed to "protect" (small game creators, musicians etc.). Strong copyright laws basically benefit mainly [corporations](corporation.md) and "trolls" on the detriment of everyone else. It smothers creativity and efficiency by prohibiting people to reuse, remix and improve already existing works -- something that's crucial for art, science, education and generally just making any kind of [progress](progress.md). Copyright absolutely devastates works of art with epidemic censorship, it increases the probability of any practically made work to be censored to a high level so works don't last for long, they die regularly: if you e.g. make a video, sooner or later you won't be able to share it because one of its many elements (music in it, sound effects, images, fonts, ...) will hit the copyright wall (your license runs out, you get a YouTube strike, author changes his mind about permission he has given, ...) -- this is convenient and needed for creating information [consumerism](consumerism.md) that corporations need; to keep the business based on art consumerism it is necessary to keep removing old art, and copyright does this very well. Therefore despite most people still probably believing in "some" (much different) form of copyright, most also oppose the current extreme form which is absolutely crazy: **copyright applies to everything without any registration or notice and last usually 70 years (!!!) AFTER the author has died (!!!)** and is already rotting in the ground. This is 100 years in some countries. In some countries it is not even possible to waive copyright to own creations -- just think about what kind of twisted society we are living in when it PROHIBITS people from making a selfless donation of their own creations to others. Some people, including [us](lrs.md), are against the very idea of copyright (those may either use waivers such as [CC0](cc0.md) or [unlicense](unlicense.md) or protest by not using any licenses and simply ignoring copyright which however will actually discourage other people from reusing their works). Though copyright was originally intended to ensure artists can make living with their works, it has now become the tool of states and corporations for universal censorship, control, bullying, surveillance, creating scarcity and [bullshit jobs](bullshit_job.md); states can use copyright to for example take down old politically inconvenient books shared on the Internet even if such takedowns do absolute not serve protection of anyone's living but purely political interests.
Prominent critics of copyright include [Lawrence Lessig](lessig.md) (who established [free culture](free_culture.md) and [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) as a response), [Nina Paley](nina_paley.md) and [Richard Stallman](rms.md). There are many movements and groups opposing copyright or its current form, most notably e.g. the [free culture](free_culture.md) movement, [free software](free_software.md) movement, [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) etc.