FiveGeorge R.R. Martin Is Carving Up OpenAI in Court, So Far
TheFinnI’m not sure I like the idea of simply downloading the books to be seen as a copyright violation in and of itself
I have a lot of beef with existing copyright legislation, but even more than that, I hate the two tier system that we currently have for enforcement of existing laws. Aaron Schwartz had the book thrown at him for downloading papers
This isn’t about empowering copyright, but interpreting the law as it stands. If we held corporations to the same standards as regular people, it would expose how our existing laws don’t fulfill the core goals of copyright. I like Giovan H’s take on this:
“the philosophical doctrine of copyright is actually remarkably sound; the goals work, but the system of power has gone rotten.”
Part of why copyright is so fucked is because there are some who are protected by it, but not bound by it, and others who are bound by it but not protected by it. We won’t see meaningful change to copyright law as long as that continues to be the case
