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> Historically, copyright law has not been updated a lot to deal with any kind of technical change. Ok, not a lot, but it has been updated. Chip mask is a good
by sanxiyn 3y ago
> Historically, copyright law has not been updated a lot to deal with any kind of technical change.
Ok, not a lot, but it has been updated. Chip mask is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_Act_of_1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_.... If language model gets as important as chip mask, I don't see why similar update wouldn't be made.
- jillesvangurp 3y agoThat's a big if. Also, this is nearly forty years ago. With chip designs, there was a clear cut case of people taking each other's designs and some of the parties were billion $ chip companies being very grumpy about other companies taking their heavily patented solutions and copying those. Which translates into a lot of political pressure and lobby power and some political action. I don't see that happening for language models. Most of the people complaining seem to be a narrow subset of open source developers that like open source but not people doing anything for profit with their source code. I.e. not your typical multi billion dollar companies that are worried about their IP getting stolen. So, not a lot of lobbying power or ability to get organized.