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> Justice didn't go after humans copying books by hand, it went after reprints of existing copyrighted material. Not sure who "justice" is, but copyright owner
by spwa4 1y ago
> Justice didn't go after humans copying books by hand, it went after reprints of existing copyrighted material.
Not sure who "justice" is, but copyright owners most definitely did go after individuals copying even small excerpts of copyrighted material, in fact that is currently still going on in libraries:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-lib...
(yes, they explicitly made taking excerpts impossible and fought against any attempt to change that)
> Music industry didn't go after people singing tunes in their kitchen
Again, yes they did. I'm not aware of kitchen incidents, but this happened:
https://stanforddaily.com/2020/08/04/warner-chappell-music-sues-people-for-singing-happy-birthday-while-washing-their-hands/ https://stanforddaily.com/2020/08/04/warner-chappell-music-s...
- makeitdouble 1y ago> individuals copying even small excerpts of copyrighted material Legal copyright claims (not the YouTube kind) need to justify harm to the original piece. > libraries Setting aside my opinion on the situation of public libraries, I wouldn't call libraries "humans copying books by hand" > this happened: [...] "This article is purely satirical and fictitious. "