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Corpus licensing is an existing issue.

jrochkind1 4y ago
I'm not familiar with this, but would love to learn more. Links explaining what you mean by this and how it works welcome. Googling wasn't helping me.
WesolyKubeczek 4y ago
The law is very big on intent. It's one thing if yeah, a corpus is full of copyrighted material, but is used for scientific, potentially humanity-advancement purposes, and completely different thing if it's being used straight for monetization while bypassing copyright holders. A FOSS license doesn't mean it's all fucking freebies all the way down as any big tech company is quick to remind you (by attaching trademarks all over the place, for example), but if it's a big tech company taking your stuff and running with it, it's suddenly all fair game. All in all, it's how companies have been behaving since about forever. Fuck little people all the way.
- jrochkind1 4y ago
  Again though, using something for scientific/scholarly purposes alone is not a 100% guarantee defense against copyright infringement in the USA. It is one aspect of a four-part fair-use defense. You can definitely still be violating copyright even with a recognized scientfic/scholarly non-profit purpose. (and be engaging in fair use without it). I have not heard of what people have already been discussing about copyright legal issues around corpuses of Other People's Content, I am curious to read more if anyone has a link. While I understand that in this case it seems like (or is!) a Big Corporation taking advantage of the Little People -- I would urge extreme caution in advocating for reducing and limiting "fair use" rights because in this case it will hurt the Big Corporation. It used to be clear to everyone that fair use helped the Little People against the Big Corporation copyright holders and should be encouraged. Lately, people (especially software devs, who of course write IP) have been excited about strenghtening protections for copyright in order to somehow limit the Big Corporations (see all the stuff around Amazon and open source), but this is a dangerous game. Fair use is one the only tools we have protecting us from a dystopia where you can't open your mouth or type on your keyboard without paying someone a license fee, which is what OTHER Big Corporations would love to see.
- moralestapia 4y ago
  I don't know how blinkist gets away with it, honestly.

I'm not familiar with this, but would love to learn more. Links explaining what you mean by this and how it works welcome. Googling wasn't helping me.

WesolyKubeczek 4y ago

The law is very big on intent. It's one thing if yeah, a corpus is full of copyrighted material, but is used for scientific, potentially humanity-advancement purposes, and completely different thing if it's being used straight for monetization while bypassing copyright holders. A FOSS license doesn't mean it's all fucking freebies all the way down as any big tech company is quick to remind you (by attaching trademarks all over the place, for example), but if it's a big tech company taking your stuff and running with it, it's suddenly all fair game. All in all, it's how companies have been behaving since about forever. Fuck little people all the way.

jrochkind1 4y ago
Again though, using something for scientific/scholarly purposes alone is not a 100% guarantee defense against copyright infringement in the USA. It is one aspect of a four-part fair-use defense. You can definitely still be violating copyright even with a recognized scientfic/scholarly non-profit purpose. (and be engaging in fair use without it). I have not heard of what people have already been discussing about copyright legal issues around corpuses of Other People's Content, I am curious to read more if anyone has a link. While I understand that in this case it seems like (or is!) a Big Corporation taking advantage of the Little People -- I would urge extreme caution in advocating for reducing and limiting "fair use" rights because in this case it will hurt the Big Corporation. It used to be clear to everyone that fair use helped the Little People against the Big Corporation copyright holders and should be encouraged. Lately, people (especially software devs, who of course write IP) have been excited about strenghtening protections for copyright in order to somehow limit the Big Corporations (see all the stuff around Amazon and open source), but this is a dangerous game. Fair use is one the only tools we have protecting us from a dystopia where you can't open your mouth or type on your keyboard without paying someone a license fee, which is what OTHER Big Corporations would love to see.
moralestapia 4y ago
I don't know how blinkist gets away with it, honestly.