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Let's not forget the death of Aaron Swartz.
Jstor is a tech company?
Well they certainly aren’t selling paper
AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
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Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jstor is a tech company?
Well they certainly aren’t selling paper
Jstor is an information database provider that that specializes in the republication of academic journal articles. The web is the company's delivery mechanism, not the defining trait of the its existence. A public-facing website doesn't make it anymore of a tech company as such than it would the New York Times.
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#93Most people in my social circles are various flavours of anti-AI, and it drives me crazy how many of them, who were once stridently anti-copyright, are now using copyright as one of the great pillars of AI opposition
Everyone is anti-copyright until they understand what copyright means. In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to…
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Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, no, not really - there's no "they" in general. Copyright law is constructed by design for large institutions, lobbying, case law, and attendant legislation allow it to be abused by data hoarders. It was never built to protect individual creators or authors or artists, despite the PR campaigns and marketing for it. There are just companies big enough to ignore those institutions for which copyright law was creat…
> 99% of commercial profits come from the first 5 years after any piece of media gets published - book, music, film, artwork, etc. Many songs make far more profits when they are featured in popular movies or TV shows decades or more after their first publication than they do in their first 5 years. It is also not uncommon for songs released before a future big star becomes a big star to make much money (or even lose…
> Many songs make far more profits when they are featured in popular movies or TV shows decades or more after their first publication than they do in their first 5 years.
Oh common. There are few songs like that. Not nearly "many". You are talking about super small subset of songs and humans profiting from these ... and the profiting humans are not even necessary the artists who created these.
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#95"AI did break copyright law and by doing that exposed how broken it was."
Fixed that for you.
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#96In the past, many developers were against copyright law because they saw it as a way for big corps to stifle competition and curb creativity in order to increase their profits. A lot of people right now invoke the violation of the same copyright law because the tide has changed and now companies, by ignoring copyright law, are hurting artists/smaller companies and/or not contributing back or unlawfully closing the co…
The law (and the system/society) generally serves capital, instead of humans. That's why big corporations can both use copyright against smaller companies and individual creators, while also ignoring the same copyright laws when it suits them. I think this is unjust. As we see capital concentrate, we see more injustice as the power balance becomes more lopsided. This isn't good for anyone, not even the super wealthy…
And why you think all the big boys push for ML, LLM, AI? To cut off the middle class. Once stuff will work automagicaly, they can squish even more profits while not caring about middle class at all. They will just ask automatas to do things for them... Great bright future...
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#97Most people in my social circles are various flavours of anti-AI, and it drives me crazy how many of them, who were once stridently anti-copyright, are now using copyright as one of the great pillars of AI opposition
People hate it when copyright law is used by corporations to crush people.
People hate it when copyright law is ignored by corporations to crush people.
This isn't particularly hard to grasp.
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#98Most people in my social circles are various flavours of anti-AI, and it drives me crazy how many of them, who were once stridently anti-copyright, are now using copyright as one of the great pillars of AI opposition
People hate it when copyright law is used by corporations to crush people. People hate it when copyright law is ignored by corporations to crush people. This isn't particularly hard to grasp.
Class consciousness isn't real and won't hurt you
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#99In the past, many developers were against copyright law because they saw it as a way for big corps to stifle competition and curb creativity in order to increase their profits. A lot of people right now invoke the violation of the same copyright law because the tide has changed and now companies, by ignoring copyright law, are hurting artists/smaller companies and/or not contributing back or unlawfully closing the co…
Well, no, not really - there's no "they" in general. Copyright law is constructed by design for large institutions, lobbying, case law, and attendant legislation allow it to be abused by data hoarders. It was never built to protect individual creators or authors or artists, despite the PR campaigns and marketing for it. There are just companies big enough to ignore those institutions for which copyright law was creat…
If I create something, I should get to dictate how it is used not just until I die but for eternity.
Re: AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, no, not really - there's no "they" in general. Copyright law is constructed by design for large institutions, lobbying, case law, and attendant legislation allow it to be abused by data hoarders. It was never built to protect individual creators or authors or artists, despite the PR campaigns and marketing for it. There are just companies big enough to ignore those institutions for which copyright law was creat…
If I create something, I should get to dictate how it is used not just until I die but for eternity.
Why? What do the rest of us get out of going along with your demand?