• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Copyright is already finite.

    Copyright initially held by a company expires 95 years from the year of its first publication or 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever comes first.

    Copyright initially held by an individual expires 70 years after the individual dies. That could easily be a longer period than company-held copyright.

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      2 months ago

      I say, just reducing that time, or make it case dependent would be a great start

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        2 months ago

        That would certainly benefit companies developing generative AI. The sooner something loses copyright protection, the easier it is to use it as training data.

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          2 months ago

          Big AI companies already have that data used, and copyright is mostly a concern for the openSource models.

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            2 months ago

            AI companies that used copyrighted data without paying are facing multiple lawsuits. Those lawsuits would go away if copyright went away.

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      2 months ago

      There’s no limit on lengthening copyright. Currently it’s 95/120 years, but that can always change (and did for many years of lengthening).