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erelongtoday at 4:19 PM6 repliesview on HN

"Intellectual property" as an idea has to go away


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jjicetoday at 4:51 PM

Like, all together? I'd agree that copyright terms are often much too long, but if you write a book, I'm totally okay with you owning the rights to that and making money off of it for a while.

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randomNumber7today at 4:20 PM

It's even more absurd now when the big AI companies train their LLMs on torrented books.

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illist-ell1stoday at 5:55 PM

mostly effects the poor and ignorant so considered a minor issue

layer8today at 4:32 PM

Don’t you mean as a law? Ideas should be free.

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gverrillatoday at 6:23 PM

"property" as an idea has to go away

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_DeadFred_today at 5:22 PM

Why? People are currently free to release all intellectual rights to what they release, so in theory these is already a intellectual property right free marketplace and people that want to create under that model creating.