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And to that I say, good riddance. Copyright as it exists in 2023 is an abusive dead weight on knowledge and culture and we would be better without it.
by Karunamon 4y ago
And to that I say, good riddance. Copyright as it exists in 2023 is an abusive dead weight on knowledge and culture and we would be better without it.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoDon't throw the baby out with the bath water! Copyright as it exists today may have too long a term. But getting rid of it entirely would create massive problems. Film, music and books would become uneconomic to produce overnight. Things like GPL would be unworkable.
- Karunamon 4y agoI don't think so. We already live in a world where anything playing on a movie screen has a digital equivalent easy to find for free; ditto music and books. Despite that, sales continue to increase every single year. While removing it from the underground would no doubt decrease sales, calling it "uneconomic to produce" is unnecessarily apocalyptic. As for software licensing, the GPL and most licenses would become irrelevant, since the copying can now happen both ways.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoIt is true that I pay for things I could illegally obtain for free. It is not the fear of being caught that stops me, rather that I believe the creator should be rewarded so more good stuff is made. It is not only individuals illegally downloading we have to consider. What production or publishing company will invest millions creating and distributing content if they can't make a profit? Very few I would think. It is true that software licenses would become irrelevant as well. People who think software freedom is important (i.e. copyleft) would not be happy. On the other hand, software companies could also not sell proprietary software either. I guess everything would become a SaaS product.
- zakki 4y agoI am curious, who has the copyright of chatGPT output from its conversation with the user?
- basch 4y agoIf it is an intermediate between a prompt and a human rewrite, who gets the credit? Does word get copyright credit for spellcheck? Does photoshop get credit for magic lasso? Generally, the person at the stick of an automated tool owns the result, if they input a significant enough creativity. Writing a four word prompt probably isn’t sufficiently creative. If I were trying to pass a coauthored writing sample as one I own, I would be wise to document all the prompts I provided, and keep track of editing/rewriting diffs.
- fineIllregister 4y agoCopyright isn't going away for the masses. People won't be able to get away with publishing Google or Disney adjacent materials justbecause they’re laundered through "AI". It just means Google and Disney will be able to take credit for and monetize peoples’ content easier.
- twelve40 4y agoI'll let someone else run a rabbit hole debate on "copyright as it exists in 2023", but there is basic human decency: citing the sources and crediting the authors of the original information that is being thrown out the window here.