Post #3420492
2026-06-26 14:44 UTC
When somebody tells you that a work is transformative and therefore fair use, they're equating comparative criticism with the whole of copyright law.
Fediverse, the thing I most want you to get out of this paper is that the ordinary property approach to copyright is why copyright is problematic. We don't have to go full libertarian here and declare that anybody can take anybody's work, but there's a vision of copyright without everybody on the defensive about when imitation is too much.
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@b@xoxo.zone 2026-06-26 14:44
The simpler approach to AI, I propose, is to go back to the other thread: when you say you're going to mass-harvest the work of creators so that you can replace those creators at mass scale, that's dead center in the sphere of unfair business dealings. If you only pay creators with enough leverage and tell the others you're entitled to ignore stated conditions about a copyrighted work and take whatever you want, that's unfair dealing. Isn't that easy? You don't need metaphysics. 5/7