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1. bryanr+58[view] [source] 2023-01-14 08:27:30
>>zacwes+(OP)
It seems to me the communal voice of HN varies widely on copyright issues depending on who is getting sued and who is getting potentially hurt by violations.

People who generally make less money than programmers - writers, artists, musicians - should stop their whining and their unfair uses of copyright to control their creative output.

Programmers who are getting shafted by big corporations using their code to build machine learning models need urgent protection and fairness.

It probably doesn't help that almost every copyright argument here gets made with the understanding of copyright prevalent in the American model - that is to say that copyright exists to promote the progress of science and the useful arts - whereas in many countries copyright is understood as existing because the creator of something has a moral right to control and ownership of whatever they made.

Obviously this lawsuit is in the U.S but I suppose even if it loses here other lawsuits in other countries, with a different understanding of copyright, might succeed.

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2. Athero+1b1[view] [source] 2023-01-14 18:13:21
>>bryanr+58
There is no inconsistency. The programmers suing Github put their code online purposely for other people to use in their own open source software for free. They aren't suing for their protection; quite the opposite. The programmers are suing out of a hatred of copyright itself, not an interest in getting themselves better copyright protection for their work, nor for money.
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