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@bkuhn @mastohost @eruwero @maybeanerd well, I merely refer to the fact that most.companies I've had to deal with won't touch #AGPLv3 because it's provisions are incompatible with #IP laws and #patents as well as #licensing.
Remember how the GE Free movement said that GM was mainly about expanding the power of "IP" laws to living things, including food crops? Remember we said this would concentrate power over food production, adding a new way for corporations to extract profit from other people's work?
Seems we were bang on about the agenda. But they've found a simpler way to do it, a monopoly over crop varieties called Plant Variety Rights;
"If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create—filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision.
The Stakes: Turning ISPs into Copyright Police
Among other things, the Supreme Court approving the appeals court’s findings will radically change the amount of risk your ISP takes on if a customer infringes on copyright, forcing the ISP to terminate access to the internet for those users accused of copyright infringement—and everyone else who uses that internet connection."
"If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create—filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision.
The Stakes: Turning ISPs into Copyright Police
Among other things, the Supreme Court approving the appeals court’s findings will radically change the amount of risk your ISP takes on if a customer infringes on copyright, forcing the ISP to terminate access to the internet for those users accused of copyright infringement—and everyone else who uses that internet connection."
ICL-CIT: Success at Jeremias! Lessons learned
https://www.iclcit.org/success-at-jeremias-lessons-learned/
As you probably know by now, the strike at Jeremias by our Polish comrades of IP was a complete success. If you haven’t heard about their struggle, we informed about it here and here, and you can find more information about the outcome in their local website (in Polish) here. Needless to say, ICL and […]
#FAU#ICLCIT#International#IP#Present #Syndicalism
'According to the groups, allowing copyright class actions in AI training cases will result in a future where copyright questions remain unresolved and the risk of "emboldened" claimants forcing enormous settlements will chill investments in AI.'
Oh, no! /snarky
Anderson seems to hold on to beliefs about how Sillycon Valley works that require a complete suspension of natural scepticism and total amnesia of recent tech history. Cadwalladr has the patience of a saint for resisting the urge to laugh in his face given some of the gormless things he says out loud in that interview.
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But Carole Cadwalladr loses me about 5 minutes from the end, where she claims that copyrights are "property" and that copying public data is like walking into someone's house to "steal the silver". For one thing, this is just factually wrong, and was thoroughly debunked 20 years ago;
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/boldrin-levine.en.html
But it's also the old anti-traveller cant; 'we can't have those kind of people loitering around here, going into people's places stealing the silver'.
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They could, but they don't. They're just being dicks.
Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.
@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
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(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)
Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.
@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
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(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)
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