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1) this slaps and actually sounds like a lot of the classics

Crimetober 1-9

Crimetober 10-21

Crimetober 22-31

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

Here's the response I wrote last time it came up:

Unfortunately the forms given in that last xkcd are incorrect. Gretchen McCulloch is a linguist, but not a historical one.

The Proto-Indo-European form is *h₂r̥tḱós. This was formerly reconstructed as *r̥ḱþós (and occasionally given in the form she quotes, including in the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, which is likely what she consulted here, although that book is a pretty crap source, drawing its data from Pokorny's dictionary which was published 41 years earlier, and which was outdated almost immediately due to not considering the new data from the decipherment of Hittite, which dramatically improved our reconstructions) to the point that pretty much nobody active in Indo-European linguistics would defend the earlier reconstruction.

The correct Proto-Indo-European form would likely give Proto-Germanic *urhsaz (although the outcome of word-medial *-tḱ- is not entirely certain), which would give Old English *orx which would give Modern English *orx (pronounced identically to the plural of "orc").

The form she gives would give Proto-Germanic *urhtaz, giving Old English *orht, giving Modern English *rought (compare wrought < Old English ge-worht < Proto-Germanic *wurhtaz).