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Post by iosifache » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

kevindamm wrote: post #58

iosifache wrote: post #43

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Ah, wow, thank you for the links and additional context. This is new information to me. > Their copyright holder may step forward at any time after you've treated it as unlicensed. Does this mean that Satoshi can just come and claim that a whole industry is using his/her copyrighted material?

The above is specifically about book copyright on orphaned works.. AFAIK there is no copyrighting of the contents of a blockchain that they could defend (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to). That copyright would hypothetically cover redistribution, which is kind of a necessary aspect of the shared ledger in the first place. The more appropriate coverage for that would be patents, which protect a process whi…

Post by xboxnolifes » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 9:09 AM UTC

snickerdoodle12 wrote: post #66

Insane how HN cheers on piracy nowadays, all because it helps them train their LLMs

Post by fao_ » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 2:09 PM UTC

mhuffman wrote: post #53

totetsu wrote: post #24

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Aren’t they all trained on copyrighted material, and lobbying governments to make that legal? Should copyright law only apply to the plebs?

>Aren’t they all trained on copyrighted material, and lobbying governments to make that legal? Only for them, not for you. >Should copyright law only apply to the plebs? In a practical sense, hasn't that been the case for most laws?