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← Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.
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Read this korrent: Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.
Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.
Last stated 2 months ago
7 Sept 2026
KK
Kevin Kelly — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: In creative work there is a real benefit to not following the financial incentives, and to creating scarcity for the sake of quality rather than for its own sake. — tap to centre the map on it
In creative work there is a real benefit to not following the financial incentives, and to creating scarcity for the sake of quality rather than for its own sake.
Last stated 11 months ago
15 Dec 2025
ML
Michael Lewis — holds since 2025-12-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If APIs can be copyrighted, a 'copyright troll' industry could emerge that harms developers everywhere. — tap to centre the map on it
If APIs can be copyrighted, a 'copyright troll' industry could emerge that harms developers everywhere.
Last stated 15 years ago
1 May 2012
JG
James Gosling — holds since 2012-05-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Art should not need an instrumental justification. — tap to centre the map on it
Art should not need an instrumental justification.
Last stated 9 months ago
23 Jan 2026
KL
Ken Liu — holds since 2026-01-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The purpose of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom, and without law there is no freedom — tap to centre the map on it
The purpose of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom, and without law there is no freedom
JL
John Locke — holds since c. 1689–1690 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A digital-service team embedded in an unchanged agency produces no lasting change once it moves on. — tap to centre the map on it
A digital-service team embedded in an unchanged agency produces no lasting change once it moves on.
Last stated 5 months ago
30 May 2026
JP
Jennifer Pahlka — holds since 2026-05-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chinese industrial policy worked, and the evidence is that the cities which pushed hardest on a sector ended up best at both production and patents. — tap to centre the map on it
Chinese industrial policy worked, and the evidence is that the cities which pushed hardest on a sector ended up best at both production and patents.
Last stated a year ago
13 Aug 2025
KJ
Keyu Jin — holds since 2025-08-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Elon Musk's approach to government bureaucracy risks undermining essential public services, stifling innovation, and impeding economic growth. — tap to centre the map on it
Elon Musk's approach to government bureaucracy risks undermining essential public services, stifling innovation, and impeding economic growth.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Mar 2025
DC
Diane Coyle — holds since 2025-03-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Innovation that answers a policy-made price rather than real scarcity leaves the world no better off, however good the science inside it. — tap to centre the map on it
Innovation that answers a policy-made price rather than real scarcity leaves the world no better off, however good the science inside it.
Last stated 4 years ago
2 Mar 2023
LP
Lant Pritchett — holds since 2023-03-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Regulation works well in stable conditions of technology and social arrangements but poorly when those arrangements are likely to change greatly. — tap to centre the map on it
Regulation works well in stable conditions of technology and social arrangements but poorly when those arrangements are likely to change greatly.
Last stated 2 months ago
8 Sept 2026
RH
Robin Hanson — holds since 2026-09-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible. — tap to centre the map on it
"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 Oct 2023
AH
Anton Howes — holds since 2023-10-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A democracy should never let all its information concentrate in one hub, government or corporate — tap to centre the map on it
A democracy should never let all its information concentrate in one hub, government or corporate
YH
Yuval Noah Harari — holds since c. 2024–2025 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A great danger of democracy is class legislation serving the dominant class — tap to centre the map on it
A great danger of democracy is class legislation serving the dominant class
JM
John Stuart Mill — holds since c. 1861 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A healthy democracy engages with protesters to hear their claims — tap to centre the map on it
A healthy democracy engages with protesters to hear their claims
Last stated 5 years ago
9 Feb 2022
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2022-02-09 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2012 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are