What I want to do is strive to make copyleft the default, instead of copyright being the default. It has to be protected the same.
To put something under copyright or patent it should cost millions, the expected price the society would loose if the invention/product was not improved on by others. To let it free to use as see fit by others should be default, and if anyone or company decides to not share or in other ways obstruct freedom, fined.
A value-shift is needed for this. Thats what I as developer am working for everyday, improving freedom software, being the change I wish to see.
> What I want to do is strive to make copyleft the default, instead of copyright being the default. It has to be protected the same.
I understand that your point is about freedom. But are you aware that, without copyright, there is no copyleft? Copyright is not the "default"; it is just always there. It is the right of an author to place conditions on how his work is handled, including, for example, licensing it under the GPL. Without copyright, everything is public domain, and so, for example, a requirement to make source code available when distributing a modified version of a program, would not be enforceable.
The laws need to be changed to better promote freedom, innovation and diversity instead of creating time-constrained monopolies.
Everything which is not in public domain explicitly, the copyleft is assigned to the author, where the rights to distribute the art and make derivatives is guaranteed by the law/judiciary office, just like it guarantees that copyright will be enforced today.
What I want to do is strive to make copyleft the default, instead of copyright being the default. It has to be protected the same.
To put something under copyright or patent it should cost millions, the expected price the society would loose if the invention/product was not improved on by others. To let it free to use as see fit by others should be default, and if anyone or company decides to not share or in other ways obstruct freedom, fined.
A value-shift is needed for this. Thats what I as developer am working for everyday, improving freedom software, being the change I wish to see.