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Personally I don't like copyright, and one big reason is that it is a law that is enforced according to the interests of the powerful. The supposed protections it provides have been shown to be as weak as the will of governments to prosecute 'AI' companies and Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, et al. for their egregious consumption of cultural works. This is to say: while we encourage people to use and derive from our work, it is clear that corporations and governments (becoming more and more the same thing, lately) care more about profits and the well-being of billionaires than people or culture.

Free-Culture Licenses are a good step in the right direction in regards to encouraging a thriving cultural landscape, but the protections they provide seem to be more nominal than material in the grand scheme of things. That's a bummer.

The good news is that the licenses also function as signals, as statements and as banners to stand behind, at least in regards to the principles and ideals they defend. Principles of community, of mutual aid, of sharing and growing together. Those are the principles Fodongo stands behind and encourages. It is not the licenses that protect our work -- it is us, as humans and as community, who do.