Perhaps a fair compromise would be doing away with copyright in its entirety, from the tiny artists trying to protect their artwork all the way up to Disney, no exceptions. Basically, either every creator has to be protected, or none of them should be.
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explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
Having read through these comments, I wonder if we’ve reached the logical conclusion of copyright itself.
frog@beehaw.org 11 months ago
zaphod@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
IMO the right compromise is to return copyright to its original 14 year term. OpenAI can freely train on anything up to 2009 which is still a gigantic amount of material whole artists continue to be protected and incentivized.
frog@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I’m increasingly convinced of that myself, yeah (although I’d favour 15 or 20 years personally, just because they’re neater numbers than 14). The original purpose of copyright was to promote innovation by ensuring a creator gets a good length of time in which to benefit from their creation, which a 14-20 year term achieves. Both extremes - a complete lack of copyright and the exceedingly long terms we have now - suppress innovation.
jarfil@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I’d favour 15 or 20 years personally, just because they’re neater numbers than 14
Another neat number is: 4.
That’s it, if you don’t make money on your creation in 4 years, then it’s likely trash anyway.
sanzky@beehaw.org 11 months ago
that would mean governments prosecuting all offences, which is not going to happen. I doubt any country would have enough resources for doing that
raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org 11 months ago
[deleted]explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
Apparently they’re going to just make only the little guy’s copyrights effectively meaningless, so yeah.
sanzky@beehaw.org 11 months ago
copyright has become a tool of oppression. Individual author’s copyright is constantly being violated with little resources for them to fight while big tech abuses others work and big media uses theirs to the point of it being censorship.