Gregory's Server
Copyright has outlived its usefulness and needs to die with the Boomers. I don't know what replaces it, but this is a "collapse, not reform" situation.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard
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Prefixing "ai" on everything is just like prefixing e or i on everything back in the dotcom boom. (Selling eShoes that measure the force of your steps with 37 individual sensors to sell you specially 3D printed insoles that you replace daily. Clearly "the new normal" to last forevermore.) Technology doesn't advance when patents are granted, it advances when patents expire. The first cell phone call was made April 3, 1973. Cell phones took off 20 years later when the patents expired. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/tech/cell-phone-turns-50/index.html Steve Sasson created the first self-contained digital camera in 1975: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121194248/http://pluggedin.kodak.com/pluggedin/post/?id=687843 20 years later, the patents expired...  @landley I'm *super* not convinced that patents have any sensible philosophical grounding (in the sense that say physical property rights do), nor that they offer any pragmatic payoff either. |