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by noosphr7 hours ago |
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upvoteby greyw7 hours ago|
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Copyright will adapt.

Also my personal opinion about copyright _in the FOSS domain_ is that I simply dont care. Copyleft as the GNU folks like to call it is just using the copyright laws to achieves certain free software objectives. If that doesnt work anymore there will be another fix

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upvoteby noosphr7 hours ago|
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Copyright adaptation literally means billion dollar lawsuits, because copyright only adapts after court decisions.

The BSD licences are not copyleft, or indeed part of the GNU copyright regime.

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upvoteby vconnor5 hours ago|
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Yeah, the billion dollar lawsuits that are coming after the trillion dollar ones that are gonna hit the AI industry any day now.

Copyright is dead.

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upvoteby noosphr5 hours ago|
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>Copyright is dead.

I remember hearing that in 1996 too.

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upvoteby vconnor5 hours ago|
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How was the LLM training scene in 1996?
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upvoteby steelframe4 hours ago|
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So long as there's big money interests around copyright, I assure you it will not die. And all the predictions about the knives coming out after the AI bubble pops are spot on.

It took a while for the DMCA to happen after Napster. But it indeed happened, and we all know the saying about history repeating itself.

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upvoteby InvertedRhodium2 hours ago|
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> It took a while for the DMCA to happen after Napster.

By the time they came for Napster technology had already moved on. I can still download entire albums and movies in minutes 2 decades later. Heck, Usenet is still a bastion of piracy and that's been around for 46 years.

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upvoteby toast05 hours ago|
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> my personal opinion about copyright _in the FOSS domain_ is that I simply dont care.

You may not care, but if the OS you prefer to run is the defendant in a copyright case, that's likely to impact you in a negative way.

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upvoteby JdeBP5 hours ago|
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It is amusing to see this point made in a discussion that is notionally about one of the BSDs.

"Those that do not learn history" and so forth.

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