Giacomo Tesio on Nostr: petersuber Interesting collection of facts, but I think most of the apparent ...
petersuber (nprofile…xcqt)
Interesting collection of facts, but I think most of the apparent contraddictions disappear if you consider #copyright as a tool and culture/knowledge as the good contended in the war.
You can easily place all actors in this war along a line between two poles: those who want to maximize public elaboration of knowledge/culture (through the public discourse and content exchange) and those who want seize/control the knowledge/culture available (controlling the public discourse and content exchange).
This way you can see how both #BigTech and the publishing industry are on the same side, share the same values and are more then happy to sign contracts with each other, as long as they can raise the respective profits.
On the other side you see developers who adopt #copyleft (that is based on copyright) and people serious on moral rights even when they adopt permissive licenses, together with people who just want to read books or see films for free.
To both groups copyright is a tool or an issue depending on the particular goal they are pursuing in a given moment.
#Meta want to control knowledge and culture, so it downplay copyright when it train its #AI models, but it enforce it when it release them under non-competition license agreements.
A hacker might workaround a flawed #DRM protection while releasing the code under a strong copyleft.
A teacher might avoid copyrighted materials while teching to students the skills required to workaround DRM.
Tons of combinations of interests exist that make people and organizations moving between these poles.
Yet all gravitate along these two poles.
With this framing another apparent issue becomes simple to explain: all corporations want to retain as much control as possible over their own cultural artifacts (been them software, contents or whatever) while they are eagger to use/abuse those of everybody else (including competitors).
Framing the war just in term of copyright maximalism/minimalism hide such important detail that in turn explain why many creators react to corporate abuse requiring stricter copyright protection, stricter moral rights and so on.
It can also explain why #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Amazon sponsor #OSI (#OpenSource Initiative who recently released the #OpenWashing #AI definition #OSAID) and #CreativeCommons.
In short, its not a war about copyright: copyright is just a weapon in that war, just like crawlers or suggestion algorithms in social media.
It's a war for (or against) the control of human culture and knowledge.
Maria Chiara Pievatolo (nprofile…0fuf)
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Interesting collection of facts, but I think most of the apparent contraddictions disappear if you consider #copyright as a tool and culture/knowledge as the good contended in the war.
You can easily place all actors in this war along a line between two poles: those who want to maximize public elaboration of knowledge/culture (through the public discourse and content exchange) and those who want seize/control the knowledge/culture available (controlling the public discourse and content exchange).
This way you can see how both #BigTech and the publishing industry are on the same side, share the same values and are more then happy to sign contracts with each other, as long as they can raise the respective profits.
On the other side you see developers who adopt #copyleft (that is based on copyright) and people serious on moral rights even when they adopt permissive licenses, together with people who just want to read books or see films for free.
To both groups copyright is a tool or an issue depending on the particular goal they are pursuing in a given moment.
#Meta want to control knowledge and culture, so it downplay copyright when it train its #AI models, but it enforce it when it release them under non-competition license agreements.
A hacker might workaround a flawed #DRM protection while releasing the code under a strong copyleft.
A teacher might avoid copyrighted materials while teching to students the skills required to workaround DRM.
Tons of combinations of interests exist that make people and organizations moving between these poles.
Yet all gravitate along these two poles.
With this framing another apparent issue becomes simple to explain: all corporations want to retain as much control as possible over their own cultural artifacts (been them software, contents or whatever) while they are eagger to use/abuse those of everybody else (including competitors).
Framing the war just in term of copyright maximalism/minimalism hide such important detail that in turn explain why many creators react to corporate abuse requiring stricter copyright protection, stricter moral rights and so on.
It can also explain why #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Amazon sponsor #OSI (#OpenSource Initiative who recently released the #OpenWashing #AI definition #OSAID) and #CreativeCommons.
In short, its not a war about copyright: copyright is just a weapon in that war, just like crawlers or suggestion algorithms in social media.
It's a war for (or against) the control of human culture and knowledge.
Maria Chiara Pievatolo (nprofile…0fuf)
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq3kslj3ew4j34nuuecrj7kutksxsx8fagkv3el9vq93le93cmuktsdk49zz (nprofile…49zz)