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Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

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Re: Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

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JoshTriplett wrote: post #473
freejazz wrote: post #451

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> the much larger players who are mass-copying works largely by individuals or smaller entities have become effectively exempt from copyright That's not true. I'm a copyright attorney and I spend my day extracting money from the largest players on behalf of individuals.

I was referring to AI training here.

We'll see, but hopefully they will not.

Re: Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

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account42 wrote: post #441
seadan83 wrote: post #412

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Copyright laws prevent piracy. It is interesting to live in a country with no enforced copyrights and EVERYTHING is pirated. I think it is easy to not know about that context and just see the stick side of copyright vis-a-vis big money corporations

Technically speaking, copyright laws create piracy as without them we would still have our free speech rights to share whatever we want without the approval from third parties and thus so-called piracy aka copyrigh infringement would not be a thing. Laws also hardly prevent sharing of copyrighted content, they only make it illegal.

> we would still have our free speech rights to share whatever we want

This is a false dichotomy. It's not "free speech" to copy someone else's video game and then sell it for your own profit. By "copy", in the old days that was literally copying the distribution CDs and providing a cracked keycode (it was not even a question of trademarks being close or what not. It's literally people taking the stuff, duplicating it, and selling it for their own profit. Eastern European mafia were greatly financed by this and ran this type of operation at industrial scale).

> Laws also hardly prevent sharing of copyrighted content, they only make it illegal.

Yeah, that's the point. Without that, everything is bootlegged. Imagine video games - they get bootlegged. DVDs, all bootlegged. Clothing bootlegged. Whatever your business is - bootlegged. Zero copyright is not a utopia of free speech, it is people ripping everyone else off. Per lived experience, I'm just saying the other extreme is not a utopia.

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