That’s not how this works though, hoping the law to just punishes people you don’t like without regard for what they are being punished for is madness.
If Anthropic lose this they’ll shrug pay a fee to licence things out of the untold billions they have available to them from credulous investors, and everyone else will have lost the right to do whatever they want with a copyrighted work without the publisher’s permission. That people who consider themselves progressive think that’s a win boggles my mind.
That’s not how this works though, hoping the law to just punishes people you don’t like without regard for what they are being punished for is madness.
If Anthropic lose this they’ll shrug pay a fee to licence things out of the untold billions they have available to them from credulous investors, and everyone else will have lost the right to do whatever they want with a copyrighted work without the publisher’s permission. That people who consider themselves progressive think that’s a win boggles my mind.
We already don’t have the right to do whatever we want with a copyrighted work without the publishers permission.
That’s what the copyright cartels want you to believe, sure.
It’s not the case. Rooting for it to become the case is repellent.