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pinkdrunkenelephants

@mcc @datarama I guess that's more of a bribery problem than a legal precedent one, then.

3 April at 20:26 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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datarama

@pinkdrunkenelephants @mcc In the EU, there actually is some legislation. Copyright explicitly *doesn't* protect works from being used in machine learning for academic research, but ML training for commercial products must respect a "machine-readable opt-out".

But that's easy enough to get around. That's why eg. Stability funded an "independent research lab" who did the actual data gathering for them.

3 April at 20:29 | Open on hachyderm.io
mcc replied to datarama

@datarama I consider this illegitimate and fundamentally unfair because I have already released large amounts of work under creative commons/open source licenses. I can't retroactively add terms to some of them because the plain language somehow no longer applies. If I add such opt-outs now, it would be like I'm admitting the licenses previously didn't apply to statistics-based derivative works

3 April at 20:31 | Open on mastodon.social
datarama replied to mcc

@mcc I consider it illegitimate and fundamentally unfair because it's opt-out.

3 April at 20:33 | Open on hachyderm.io
pinkdrunkenelephants replied to datarama

@datarama @mcc I wonder why it is people don't just revolt and destroy their servers then. Or drag them into jail.

Why do people delude themselves into accepting atrocities?

3 April at 20:31 | Open on mastodon.social
datarama replied to pinkdrunkenelephants

@pinkdrunkenelephants @mcc I think if there was a simple clear-cut answer to that, the world would be a *very* different place.

3 April at 20:36 | Open on hachyderm.io
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