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It's time to abolish copyright. It creates more problems (stiffles innovation, creates rents) than it solves (rewards innovation).
by drnick1 10mo ago
It's time to abolish copyright. It creates more problems (stiffles innovation, creates rents) than it solves (rewards innovation).
- mmooss 10mo agoIt doesn't create problems for large companies that make AI systems.
- tertle950 10mo agoYeah, it seems to only be a problem when you're a human being remixing the culture you grew up with. Meta can admit to soullessly scraping books they don't own for their for-profit AI datasets [1], and it's not a problem because they're Meta. But if you're an artist? Nope. Sampling in hip hop songs, for example, is in a "complex legal gray area" (translation: "it's illegal but we don't want to admit that out loud") [2]. [1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-books https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-bo... [2] https://urbanspook.com/copyright-laws-2025-impact-on-hip-hop-sampling/ https://urbanspook.com/copyright-laws-2025-impact-on-hip-hop...