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by spwa4 119 days ago
> If you look at copyright law, with its provisions like 70 years after the author's death, the Disney extension, ...

Sure but once again we have to conclude that "justice" according to the outcome US (and European) courts produced means YOU AND I get charged $30000 per copyright violation they catch you. Yet, it is apparently also entirely just, according to judges, that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Alibaba, META, ... don't get charged anything for violating copyright on a scale so large it's difficult to even imagine.

So why would anyone follow the law or opinions of courts, congress, ... unless physically forced? As opposed to finding any creative way out of it? Obviously the outcome courts explicitly chose does not follow either mine, or US courts' own version of justice. They are just a way to guarantee big company and state profits using violence, and literally nothing more.