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   Filippo Valsorda :go: (filippo@abyssdomain.expert)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 18:39:16 JST Filippo Valsorda :go:

   It’s disheartening to see AI reactionism lead my community to a 180° on copyright.

   Everyone is merrily attacking LibGen now. If it didn’t exist, big tech companies would still find training data, it just wouldn’t be accessible to regular people.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 18:39:12 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @filippo @whitequark

     My stance is:

     1) Copyright should exist, but it should be limited in duration and scope to promote creation.
     2) Fuck privatizing public research.
     3) Fuck for-profit piracy.
     4) MMLs are massively over-hyped.

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     Filippo Valsorda :go: (filippo@abyssdomain.expert)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 18:39:14 JST Filippo Valsorda :go:

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark to be fair the clever campaign that everyone seems to be falling for lets you search for your books in the dataset, but still disappointing from people that I would have never imagined calling for the shutdown of TPB or ZLib

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 18:39:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @filippo "scientific knowledge, paid for by the public, and often discovered in public institutions for the benefit of the public, being public is bad actually" is a remarkably... something take

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:43:11 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @filippo i would not be actively against a form of copyright that is limited to individuals only, no corporate ownership

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:43:11 JST Rich Felker

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧
     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @whitequark @ryanc @filippo In the context of a legal framework that allows corporations to enter arbitrarily-evil contracts with individuals I don't think limiting copyright ownership to individuals would make any material difference.

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     0xC0DEC0DE07E8 (c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:55:15 JST 0xC0DEC0DE07E8

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     • Rich Felker
     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧
     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @dalias @whitequark @ryanc @filippo this is apparently exactly what happened to all previous expansions to copyright that vested in the creating individuals.
     “You have new rights according to the government; isn’t that nice? Sign them over to us or we’ll make you starve [now, rather than later].”