That’s because a giant corporation is doing the stealing. When it came to the film studios, they gladly pirated each others material.
I stand by the observation that Intellectual Property is a temporary licensing monopoly that is granted as an incentive to create in order to facilitate a robust public domain. Once Disney et. al. lobbied government to extend copyright protection to outrageous, unreasonable lengths, the point of IP was lost.¹ IP is now a rent-seeking scheme (a wrongdoing even in capitalism) and is therefore not legitimate to a liberal, public-serving society.
Of course, since I’ve made that observation, my society shed all pretenses of being liberal or public-serving.
¹ A robust public domain is also sabotaged by publishing company efforts to bury games they’ve abandoned or have ceased to support, sometimes suing users who resurrect those games with private servers or emulation. Then there are efforts to evergreen patents and remaster music.
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“Also, if we steal it to train an LLM, that’s totally legal and we dont have to pay you”
That’s because a giant corporation is doing the stealing. When it came to the film studios, they gladly pirated each others material.
I stand by the observation that Intellectual Property is a temporary licensing monopoly that is granted as an incentive to create in order to facilitate a robust public domain. Once Disney et. al. lobbied government to extend copyright protection to outrageous, unreasonable lengths, the point of IP was lost.¹ IP is now a rent-seeking scheme (a wrongdoing even in capitalism) and is therefore not legitimate to a liberal, public-serving society.
Of course, since I’ve made that observation, my society shed all pretenses of being liberal or public-serving.
¹ A robust public domain is also sabotaged by publishing company efforts to bury games they’ve abandoned or have ceased to support, sometimes suing users who resurrect those games with private servers or emulation. Then there are efforts to evergreen patents and remaster music.