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Imagine the kind of hellish world we'd live in if you could just ignore the law and remove the capacity for the market (and by extension all of society) to make
by willis936 3y ago
Imagine the kind of hellish world we'd live in if you could just ignore the law and remove the capacity for the market (and by extension all of society) to make human expression possible. Yes, event artists need to be given the possibility of being able to feed themselves.
Imagine what I could accomplish if I was a tech startup flush with cash unencumbered by the law. Surely a planetary hostile takeover would only be a few years and existential gambits away.
- ghaff 3y agoAs of today, it is by no means clear that a law is being broken and the IP lawyers I know tend to think not. But the courts and perhaps Congress will decide.
- willis936 3y agoIf laundering of IP were legal then why isn't it already more common?
- ghaff 3y agoI have no idea what you mean by laundering IP. Existing IP is built on all the time in ways that are or are not permissible depending upon the nature of the IP protection, if any, and the nature of the extension. And sometimes things end up going to court, especially in the context of patents. And lots of things that aren’t generally protectable like new artistic styles and techniques are co-opted all the time by other artists.
- willis936 3y agoI'm talking about the unlicensed distribution of copyright protected IP.
- ghaff 3y agoWhich there is a good argument AI models are not.
- willis936 3y agoI wouldn't characterize the arguments I've heard to date as "good". They are wishful thinking of those uninterested in abiding the rules.
- freejazz 3y agoGhaff is an intellectually dishonest poster expressing nonsensical views about copyright law (it only protects against verbatim copying) it is not worth the effort to undo his "bullshit asymmetry principle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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