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Given there is a contentID system for explicitly copyrighted works, it seems insane that nobody involved in these systems has seen fit to do the same for explic
by inflatableDodo 8y ago
Given there is a contentID system for explicitly copyrighted works, it seems insane that nobody involved in these systems has seen fit to do the same for explicitly public works.
- minikites 8y agoThere's no profit motive.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoThere is an excellent profit motive, it is just not as directly obvious as it is mostly realised in money not spent and humans seem notoriously bad at preferring small gains over large savings.
- wilg 8y agoCan you clarify the profit motive you're referring to?
- inflatableDodo 8y agoNot doing it incurs a fairly large cost across many areas of the economy. Time has to be spent by people faffing around with this nonsense that creates no wealth economically and this essentially creates an overall drag on profitability across most of the economy, parasitically favouring only small sectors such as legal services. The trouble is, this is a group profit motive and people seem to think of profit motive mostly from an individualistic and zero-sum perspective.
- swsieber 8y agoThere's a reason people only think of it from an individual and zero-sum perspective - that's the aspect that generally effects changes/results.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoI think you may have that back to front.
- swsieber 8y agoSorry - I think the tragedy of the commons would like to disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
- edgineer 8y agoThese systems are good at picking up small portions of copyrighted works within some larger context, but to guarantee that 100% of a YouTube video or scribd document is in the public domain is a different problem. For published works like the Mueller report, one wouldn't need contentID. Matching the document's hash would suffice.
- gizmo686 8y agoA hash would still only work for the exact document. Suppose someone uploads a new version with a better table of contents, or with some added annotations [0]; now your hash no longer matches, while contentID probably will. [0] Both things which could be copywrited, but I'll assume will not trigger the actual flag.
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- itronitron 8y agothese systems seem to have no concept of non-copyrighted works which is a fundamental flaw