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by MarsIronPI 160 days ago
I guess I should say more accurately: Their mission is to both archive it and publish it. They seem to be explicitly against copyright, on principle. Which I greatly respect.
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It's time to abolish copyright. It creates more problems (stiffles innovation, creates rents) than it solves (rewards innovation).
It doesn't create problems for large companies that make AI systems.
Yeah, it seems to only be a problem when you're a human being remixing the culture you grew up with.

Meta can admit to soullessly scraping books they don't own for their for-profit AI datasets [1], and it's not a problem because they're Meta. But if you're an artist? Nope. Sampling in hip hop songs, for example, is in a "complex legal gray area" (translation: "it's illegal but we don't want to admit that out loud") [2].

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-bo...

[2] https://urbanspook.com/copyright-laws-2025-impact-on-hip-hop...