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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by adamc on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:23PM (#36669611)
People did write before copyright. Copyright was established to make it more likely.

Yes, people write for other reasons (e.g., self-promotion). But that does not account for "most authors" I would actually want to read.

I'm not against copyright being different, especially for things that are written as work-for-hire. But that's a fight with Disney. Good luck.

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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by dragonwriter on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:54PM (#36672057)
> People did write before copyright. Copyright was established to make it more likely.

No, it was established to make investing in printing presses more profitable, which is why the rights initially attached to printers. Authors as the locus of rights were a later change.

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