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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by thomastjeffery on Monday June 16, 2025 @04:09PM (#44292963)
How could we possibly know that? Copyright has existed since before the industrial revolution even started. What you described is not really that far from reality today: most artists are not really making a living. The words "starving artist" have not even begun to lose their meaning. Every artist I know has been failed by copyright. The value a copyright creates is not applied to the art: it's applied to the moat around the art. The only certain beneficiaries are the giant corporations that use their collected moats to drown out small competition, including artists.
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by Aloisius on Monday June 16, 2025 @05:19PM (#44293497)
The copyright laws that existed prior to the industrial revolution only existed only in a small number of countries. A large swath of the planet had no equivalent.

Even British Colonial America had no copyright, save a handful of exceptions, as the Statute of Anne did not apply to the colonies.

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