> A lot of people, especially on hacker news, believe something being on the internet is a license to do whatever the fuck they want with that data. A license

> A lot of people, especially on hacker news, believe something being on the internet is a license to do whatever the fuck they want with that data. A license to do whatever the fuck they want? No. To do things other than make copies? Sure. Copyright is the right to copy, no more than that. Learning from something is not copying it. If you want to complain about memorisation, that’s fair. But learning from something is not something copyright was intended to restrict, so no, plenty of people absolutely will not care about copyright when it comes to this kind of thing, and rightly so.