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Copyright only hurts the small creators it was intended to protect. Hell, I work in a creative field and in order to get employment that isn't soliciting freelance work on a project-by-project basis, most companies heavily push creative people to sign away all rights to the things they make on or off company time. I've only successfully gotten a company to drop onerous IP language once. The other times I've walked away from what are otherwise dream jobs.


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