Hi All, A recent post by Dean Baker at The Center for Economics and Policy Research (https://www.cepr.net/ ) has once again made me think that goals of the Free Software movement in general, and the FSF specifically, might be better served by fighting/lobbying/whatever for doing away with copyrights and patents entirely (and replacing them with other mechanisms), rather than trying to work within the existing system.
The post I'm referring to is: https://www.cepr.net/quick-thoughts-on-ai-and-intellectual-property/ Admittedly, this post only directly addresses copyrights and "creative works" but it _does_ tie in with the issue of "AI" systems plagiarizing people's work. Since this has been discussed in various contexts on this list recently, I thought I'd share the above post and see what thoughts people might have. Just to be clear, within the existing system of copyrights, etc., The Copyleft is absolutely brilliant (IMO). But it seems to me that ever since the digital revolution has made making copies of so many things virtually cost free (books, music, movies/videos, software, and on and on), that the basic idea of the copyright (and patents) is now something that is fundamentally flawed and needs to go the way of the dinosaurs. Just my $0.02. Cheers Leland -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leland C. Best | Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is [email protected] | something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. | -- Isaac Asimov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
