@timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

It’s not stealing and your saying it is is the real lack of ethics. Greed over intellectual property has already wrecked huge amounts our culture as money grubbers try to monetize the joy contributed by the public.

@tqwhite @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

Who are the money grubbers?

artists who can't afford rent?

can you clarify?

@CrowquillGal @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

Yes I can.

Artists who can’t pay rent are not going to lose anything. They already are working two jobs to subsidize their passion.

Unless, of course, they are a Louisiana blues man who had to sell his intellectual property because he could not find a job. In that case he also has nothing to lose because he doesn’t have anything anymore.

@tqwhite @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

Should artists who cannot pay rent have their work used to enrich someone else and receive no profit?

@CrowquillGal @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

Should I get sued for playing the song my wife and I played when we fell in love because I did not pay NAASCAP (or whatever it is)?

There are losers either way. Intellectual@property is an oxymoron.

@tqwhite @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

no one sues you for playing music.

People can sue you for profiting from their music, without their consent.

Who are the money grubbers?

Who is allowed to profit from creative work?

Techbros who scrape the internet for images they don't bother to license from?

or the people educating themselves, purchasing the materials and tools required, and putting the time in to create something?

@CrowquillGal @timnitGebru @DataDrivenMD

Throughout history, everyone that doesn’t do an exact copy is who gets to profit. Thousands of playwrights have copied shakespeares style and concepts. A movie critic profits off of a movie by describing it.

Experiencing stuff and regurgitating it with your own api is the essential function of human culture.