I agree with you. It's a bit disingenuous to report the issue as pro or anti fair use when the real question is what constitutes a fair use? Similarly, statem

I agree with you. It's a bit disingenuous to report the issue as pro or anti fair use when the real question is what constitutes a fair use? Similarly, statements like: "they held with a ridiculously one-sided panel of folks from the creative industries, who more or less all agreed that everyone should be forced to give them money at every opportunity." just reflect Techdirt's own bias as to what they believe the outcome should be. I also think that Tech Dirt's analysis of the FTC's position is conclusory regarding the downstream effects of increasing wealth concentration and reducing competition. It seems like Tech Dirt came to this in the absence of any thought as to what the implications would be for competition in a world where training data of copyrighted materials don't need to be licensed. I'm not so sure that such an outcome would improve competition in creative fields, and I'm not seeing anything from Tech Dirt explaining how they got there.