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Re:Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI by estearum on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:50PM (#48262492)
Are you arguing that copyright lasts too long or that copyright shouldn't exist?

Your prior comment, "human culture is owned by humanity", sure sounds like the latter.

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Re:Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI by nl on Sunday May 24, 2026 @11:44PM (#48263231)
I think copyright is a valid incentive.

I don't think reading books (whether by human or by machine) is copyright infringement.

I think that attaining books that are still under copyright by downloading a pirate torrent is wrong.

I think a machine reading those books by borrowing them from a public library is fine.

I think copyright holders restricting their books from being in a public library is just as wrong as downloading a pirated copy.

I think deliberately reproducing a copyrighted book is wrong, but the infringement is by the person who did that, not by the person who built a tool which can incidentally be used for that.

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