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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Oh, please. Copyright has nothing to do with "control" of culture for anything other than commercial reasons. If you want to witness real cultural control for political reasons, keep your eye on places where it's actually happening -- e.g. China, Russia, Myanmar/Burma, Cuba, Iran etc
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Except he did not say "control." He said "cultural appropriation by increasingly-hegemonic corporate structures, the use of artists as a figleaf for said theft, and the restriction of available cultural material for current artists."
Which I think is a very precise description of exactly what is going on.