It’s probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn’t have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It’s the same idea behind the “sticks and stones” saying.

You don’t know of any such non-profit? Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, OpenStreetMap Foundation, you don’t know of these?

I’m a supporter of free licensing of any and all works, but I recognize that it is most important for software because there you need transparency about how it actually works (and affects our lives), you need to be able to build on other people’s work, this is not necessarily equally important for all other types of work. It’s also a fair point that we have not really yet figured out a very good business model for free licensing, unfortunately.

Of course in general these are all still rising movements, think about how many scientific journals have CC licenses nowadays compared to like 15 years ago.

copywrite makes some sense but only for limited periods for the artists/writers. The current disneyification of it is bs.

There’s concern about it where the content has utility beyond art, such as academic research and raw datasets.

That’s not to day art isn’t useful, but much of what people value about it is originality.

Because high quality content needs income to continue existing, and you generally get that income via a subscription or the people making your content run out of money and go get jobs.

Edit: just look at what’s happened to journalism over the last 30y if you’re having a hard time understanding why paying journalists and other writers is important. Very few high quality outlets have survived, and they’re largely on life support if they’ve not been bought up to push some billionaire’s politics.

Remember that we live in the age of open/free content. So much is available under creative commons, or otherwise freely available compared to the pre internet era.

I’m making an effort to pick more libre/free content, it just takes a lot more effort to fully make the switch than I had anticipated. We should really be pushing for more open, freely licensed content. I’d estimate that most Lemmy users are also Linux users, so it shouldn’t be too hard to convince people. I’ve been under a rock for so long that my issue is simply not know what the alternatives are.

They/we are concerned about free works in general. I’m not sure where you got the idea people aren’t.

I don’t have much to add here and I haven’t paid much attention if the problem gets worse (though I think freely licensed content is rather important too), but this year I found some anarchist (and in general some hard-left leaning) bands and music artists that provide their music for free and it’s sooo nice, makes me want to donate to them:)

Also as I’m learning linux I’ve found some open source books which is very nice of them too.

Free and open source software and content has never been more prolific, nor has it ever been so widespread and successful. It’s not going anywhere.

Your personal exposure to it, and what you may see and hear of it can fluctuate and vary, depending on where you’re looking who you’re listening to. It can also be affected by marketing pushes from for-profit companies. That doesn’t mean there’s any less of it or that it’s somehow dying.

There had never been a time when free and open source of software and content has been so prolific, successful, and popular. It will only get more so moving forward. And while there are certainly those who would work against it, I doubt there is much to fear about it going away.

There are non-profits around every community and city and settlement pretty much throughout the world … they’re called libraries that house plain old paper books that are more or less free to read for anyone interested.

Most of the useful, relevant, education, informative and useful content we need as individuals is already freely available in open source books and reading material in license free ebooks and websites - the internet archive has a ton of content - wikipedia is also a great resource and if it doesn’t have the relevant or objective information you want, it is usually a starting point for the reader to find more.

The majority of the rest of the internet … I’d say about 80% to 90% of it is just useless mindless repeated, rehashed, reposted content from what is already available in libraries … or it’s just useless entertainment nonsense to fill people’s time with bits of information to make us laugh, smile or worry.