GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not that I am a fan of the current implementation of copyright in the US, but I know if I was planning on building my business around something that couldn’t exist without violating copyright I would surely thought of that fairly early on.

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      10 months ago

      “My profits from fencing your wallet could not exist if stealing your wallet were punished.”

      “Ah, you’re right, how silly of me, carry on.”

    • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      You should check out this article by Kit Walsh, a senior staff attorney at the EFF, and this one by Katherine Klosek, the director of information policy and federal relations at the Association of Research Libraries.