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Isn’t the reason we have a public domain so that people aren’t in a perpetual debt to their intellectual forebears?

• gruez 9mo ago
  Copyrights last a very long time. Moreover nothing says it has to be open. The recipe to coke is still secret.
  • edoceo 9mo ago
    A recent copy-cat https://www.reddit.com/r/CopyCatRecipes/comments/1qbbo6d/cocacola_coke_copycat_recipe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CopyCatRecipes/comments/1qbbo6d/coc...
  • daveguy 9mo ago
    The recipe of coke is not a copyright, it is a trade secret. Trade secrets can remain indefinitely if you can keep it secret. Copyrights are "open" by their nature.
    • gruez 9mo ago
      In the context of this discussion though, what makes you think openai can't keep theirs a trade secret?
      • daveguy 9mo ago
        I was agreeing it could last a very long time, even longer that copyright. But specifically because it is not copyright. But as an AI model, it just won't have value for very long. Models are dated within a 6 months and obsolete in 2 years. IP around development may last longer.
  • bandrami 9mo ago
    The recipe to Coca Cola is not copyrighted (recipes in general can't be) but is protected by trade secret laws, which can notionally last forever. The recipe also isn't that much of a secret, they read it on the air on a This American Life episode and the Coca Cola spokesperson kind of shrugged it off because you'd have to clone an entire industrial process to turn that recipe into a recognizable Coke.