Glyph4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116602626276300598

I really want to stress that copyright infringement is a civil infraction unless you pass the specific tests set out in US law that make it a criminal infraction (>$1000 retail value worth of infringement). I am not a lawyer but it seems clear to me that every frontier model provider should have its models seized (as they are derivative works) and all their executives should spend a year in jail https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506

Show threadGlyph4d ago
This is a bad law and I oppose its presence on our books. I do not think that copyright infringement should be a criminal offense. But the only thing that I dislike about copyright law more than its bad design is its selective enforcement. We cannot have "heads I win, tails you lose" enforcement of the law for oligarchs.
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@glyph Judicially, that is what oligarchy *is*.
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