sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 16 hours agoAI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certifiedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10
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minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·7 hours ago all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set. No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.