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Well what isn’t in this world? Would Einstein would have been possible without Newton?

• thedailymail 2y ago
  Newton was public domain by Einstein's time.
  • jampekka 2y ago
    Indeed. Copyright was introduced in 1710, Principia was published in 1687.
    • yieldcrv 2y ago
      and even with our current copyright laws providing for long dated protection, it would have still been in public domain
      • jampekka 2y ago
        It's hard to say what the current laws actually imply. Steamboat Willie was originally meant to be in the public domain in 1955. Got there in 2024.
• int_19h 2y ago
  I'm fine with us ditching copyright altogether. But as things are, the megacorps are training their LLMs on the commons while asserting "intellectual property" rights on the resulting weights. So, fuck them, and cheers to those who try to do something about this state of affairs.