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Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Disband Copyright

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

They are just illegally selling us off as slaves. That is what is happening. All our fault for not having strong citizen watchdogs, clamping down on this behavior.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh good I see Labour are dealing with the real issues in society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Modern Labour and not giving a fuck about workers, name a more iconic duo.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean they were trained on copyrighted material and nothing has been done about that so...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (21 children)

So abolish copyright law entirely instead of only allowing theft when capitalists do it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

It only seems to make a difference when the rich ones complain.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

On the other hand copyright laws have been extended to insane time lengths. Sorry but your grandkids shouldn't profit off of you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It's never the grandkids. The Beatles sold the rights to their songs.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm naming my torrent client "AI" and now I have the right to download a car.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But downloading and illegally using that font is okay?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

and the music

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Can the rest of us please use copyrighted material without permission?

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 day ago (49 children)

In theory, could you then just register as an AI company and pirate anything?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

You can already just pirate anything. In fact, downloading copyrighted content is not illegal in most countries just distributing is.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how they decided which artist to include in the thumbnail image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Moneys decided it. No one is going to click on a image for a old wrinkly white guy

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How funny this is gonna get when AI copyrights Nintendo stuff. Ah man I got my popcorn ready.

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