We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

Re:We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” by safety1st on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:37AM (#35888936)

The three acquisitions you mentioned all took place many years after the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. Without the financial benefits conferred by that law (the timing and content of which benefited them more than it did their competitors), they might not have made all of those acquisitions.

If you shoot someone, take all his money, then build a business with it, you're still a murderer. (Just now you're a rich murderer.)

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Re:We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” by guhcampos on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:45PM (#35889902)

> A lot of people in this thread seem to be undervaluing those old school Disney characters

Right? There were even competitors back then. People all but forgot the Looney Tunes.

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Re:We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” by TylerE on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:06PM (#35894716)

They also tend to omit that at the time of the buyout Marvel was at a sales (and in many ways creative) nadir. It was hardly a media juggernaut. They actually went bankrupt in the late 90s, and it was only Carl Icahn buying much of their outstanding debt for Pennie’s on the dollar (and then firing basically all of the then-current board) that kept them from going under totally.

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Re:We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” by fuzzfactor on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:08PM (#35896867)

What's needed regardless of copyright or patent terms, is a similar attitude to legal predation as there is to physical stalking and threatening.

i.e. enforce egregious IP violations while criminalizing trolls.

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