COPYRIGHT PROTEST SONG

by Tom Konecki

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In the future of international pacts
There’s no place for creative acts.
Even the most prolific artists and performers
Are controlled by cunning copyright holders.

Freedoms, rights and intangible values
Has become nothing but the manner to abuse
The creators’ own ideas and thoughts
And treat them as easy to control robots.

Everybody wants only money and success
And none remembers the idea of open-access
To acquire knowledge and gather information
That is now the object of companies’ manipulation.

The profits made only by representatives
Can’t beget artists’ and scientists’ motives
To create, discover and satisfy the appetite of hungry
receivers, instead - leaving them frustrated and angry.

In the future full of limitations
Where giving people unpaid art and information
Is seen as espionage and crime
It seems that being creative is a waste of time.

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