As someone who is a working computer scientist and an amateur photographer, I’ve been interested in copyright law for quite some time. While I am not a lawyer, and am certainly not your lawyer, I feel that I have a fairly good layman’s grasp on copyright law.
This article is complete and utter shite.
The sole purpose of Copyright law is to grant the author of a work a monopoly on that work for a given time period in order to exploit it for commercial gain. It is not meant to do anything more, like enable the downtrodden to rise up and overthrow their burgoise masters.
Imagine how horrible of a world we would live in if copyright law protected people from the tragedies she mentioned. There would be no new music, no new films, no new photographs. Every artistic work is in some way influenced by that which came before.
The influence that Elvis got from the Blues singers was the same that the Beatles got from Elvis, and the same that the Rap artists of today got from all of them. Outlaw that, and you outlaw music.
Actors, directors, and camera operators are all hired by the studio to complete their tasks, they agree ahead of time on their pay. They are all work for hire copyright people. If they don’t like it they can do something else for a living. (But even I have a work for hire clause in my employment contract.)
Revenge porn is a horrible thing. But secret filming is handled by laws regarding expectation of privacy, not copyright. It’s already illegal.
Oh, and that little girl is going to get killed by the bull. Some message for women: stand up to the market and get killed.
