Post #4208810
2026-07-29 19:03 UTC
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-07-29 21:21
I have a problem with these statements: it’s a licensed monopoly enforced by the state, which gives the copyright owner power over many many things, present and future, not actually owned by them. I do own my copyrighted material. You own a copy. You can’t redistribute it (without my permission), because I own the copyright. But I think we can all agree that the currently landscape of intellectual property legislation is utter nonsense, that it’s gotten completely out of hand, and that it mainly encourages concentration and gatekeeping. We cannot agree. It’s not gotten out of hand. It needs to be enforced and strengthened, in order to protect creatives from AI companies stealing our IP. So yes, the model producers have blatantly disregarded copyright, and have gotten away with it in ways which are not available to us peasants. Exactly. That’s why we need to strengthen copyright protection. But we’re the copyleft people, we should be pointing at this and shouting that the emperor is finally naked, and that it’s time to curtail all that nonsense legislation once and for all, so that we can all be a little freer from the shackles of corporate monopoly. That would literally give corporations more power over our creations. And instead, we (the copyleft guys!) are just sitting here clutching our copyright pearls while muttering “but… But… Copyright! It violates the precious copyright!”. Because it does violate our copyrights. I didn’t release my code as open source so that it could be copied and stolen without regard to the license I specifically chose to protect it.