GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Let’s not kid ourselves that the copyright is stopping mega corporations from stealing your github code.

    What’s stopping them from hiring an engineer that basically rewrites your code? No one would ever know.

    Copyleft enforcement is laughable at best and thats with legitimate non profits working on it (like FSF) and that’s when it comes to direct library use without modifications and there’s basically no history of prosecution or penalties for partial code copying (nor that there should be imo) that’s even when 1:1 code has been found!

    I feel like copyright has been doing very little in modern age and have yet to see any science that contradicts my opinion here. Most copyright holders (like high 90%) are mega corporations like ghetty images that hardly contribute back to the society.