I think abolishing copyright and intellectual property in general is a fine enough reason unto itself to make revolution.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2020
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My only hesitation is that previous socialist revolutions haven't, to my knowledge, abolished copyright and IP and I'm also concerned that its a sort of first world concern
I mean it's not really a first world concern. In fact I would argue the opposite, and the most recent examples of this is several third world countries calling for the covid vaccine patents to be open. There was a recent democracy now interview about this.
I may have been being a bit tongue-in-cheek. As far as accomplishments of a revolution go, copyright and IP will probably be toward the rear end of things to accomplish, because it is as you say, a first world concern. I still hate both things with a passion, though.
it seems to me that IP laws and copyright stand as a big impediment to efficient progress. Ideally in a socialist country "trade secrets" would be open knowledge so that anyone could work to improve it, similarly to free and open source software paradigms.
I think it's fine for people to receive recognition for/own their art and music and stuff like that but I'd like to see a major expansion in the rights of people making transformative/derivative works where someone can't just torpedo your shit just cuz you used 10 seconds of their song or whatever.