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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

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451 points croes | 3 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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brador ◴[12 May 25 13:02 UTC] No.43962450[source]▶
Lifetime for human copyright, 20 years for corporate copyright. That’s the golden zone.
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Zambyte ◴[12 May 25 13:23 UTC] No.43962626[source]▶
Zero (0) years for corporate copyright, zero (0) years for human copyright is the golden zone in my book.
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umanwizard ◴[12 May 25 13:31 UTC] No.43962681[source]▶
Why?
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Zambyte ◴[12 May 25 13:39 UTC] No.43962773[source]▶
It took me a while to be convinced that copyright is strictly a bad idea, but these two articles were very convincing to me.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/24/Alice-in-Wonderland.html

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/23/Sustainable-creativity-po...

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dmonitor ◴[12 May 25 14:38 UTC] No.43963511[source]▶
You need some mechanism in place to prevent any joe schmoe from spinning up FreeSteam and rehosting the whole thing.
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1. pitaj ◴[12 May 25 15:18 UTC] No.43964024{3}[source]▶
There can be many incentives for people to use official sources: early access, easy updates, live events, etc
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2. Zambyte ◴[12 May 25 16:26 UTC] No.43964798[source]▶
"Early access" doesn't work in this context, but yes for the other means.
3. dmonitor ◴[12 May 25 17:51 UTC] No.43965729[source]▶
There's no reason FreeSteam can't also do that, though. There's no copyright, so just have an extension of the steamapp that changes it to point to your server when downloading games / checking ownership. Piracy stops being a service issue when pirates are allowed to make nice services.