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  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 01:46pm

    you’re using the Star Wars quote out of context for your own benefit, which is something a Sith would do.
    You simply don't understand it. I'm an expert at examining colours, since I was responsible of making sure phone screens had exactly correctly coloured pixels. Try count how many pixels I've examined to arrive at correct software to display accurate pixel colours. It's even so bad, that an adverticement that didn't use rgba colour palette caused significant problems/headache.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 01:40pm

    we’re not the stereotypes you see in movies.
    I know. You're actually artificial intelligence robots that are soon taking over the world, if we cannot stop the robots that you sent back in time via these devices that can cut through steel and it has nice rotating sphere that cuts its way through time.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 01:37pm

    comment on a different article that is actually about the laws of other countries
    I don't think there is any such articles available in techdirt. There's too much american bullshit and pre-censorship of foreign articles that the site almost never posts articles about foreign countries. So if I post something, it needs to be about copyright issues, since copyright rules are the same for everyone on the western world.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 07:04am

    This claim is probably rising to the level of defamation.
    You can't have defamation, if the information is the truth. And there's no indication that techdirt suddenly stopped running ads on the site or that they stopped delaying the messages.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 05:32am

    a TOS can explicitly state
    But this requires that author explicitly decides to do this. I'm usually talking about the default behaviour, i.e. what happens when authors decide nothing...

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 05:27am

    at best disregarded in your false claims.
    only a sith deals with absolutes like that. Its not always black and white, when there's levels of gray and all the vibrant colours too.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 04:15pm

    https://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/movies/misc/midjourney.pdf If disney is going to attack midjourney with this level of big guns, midjourney has no fucking chance. No amount of fair use is going to save them. This is more than billion dollar lawsuit, and midjourney's technology is going to be so fucking dead that we're going to be digging bones in graveyard if we want to see the technology in next 50 years.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 10:41am

    You haven’t paid Mike to use Techdirt or asked for his permission to use the website, so by your own determination, you’re constantly violating copyright laws.
    This is why my messages are being delayed or rejected outright, when Mike wants to forward all information about my products to the adverticement department and try to extort money from me.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 10:23am

    You have admitted to not studying US copyright law, so your claims about it aren’t just wrong, but completely ignorant.
    Copyright laws are supposed to work the same everywhere in western world, so you cannot hide behind your usa pond, when the same rules apply to larger area of the world. This is why we can sue pirate sites operated from usa, if they decide to infringe our copyright.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 09:46am

    This TOS solution is only used because no other solution is available. There are indications in court paperworks that the TOS solution is simply not enough to prevent large scale piracy happening through software you write. And thus courts are unwilling to accept it as a solution to the piracy problem. In my software, there's additional tricks that need to be used as defense in addition to the TOS trick: namely, copy-pasting url to the software is designed to be burdensome enough that "manual steps are required" before piracy can happen, thus limiting significantly how large scale piracy users are able to do through the software. But these same steps were tried by court cases where the defendant was paying significant damage amounts to the content owners. Thus the solutions we have for preventing user's piracy might not be enough for the lawyers and they will just declare the software illegal. It takes significant amount of research and effort to figure out these solutions that allow the software to operate properly, but still prevent piracy that users are trying to do. But if the research is not being done, the situation is significantly worse. The people who create software, but do not care about respecting other people's copyright, will be blinking targets for copyright infringement lawsuits in the content owner's copyright tracking system...

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 08:38am

    If this were the first time you commented, you might have some benefit of the doubt left
    You forgot to factor the possibility that all the bullshit you read is actually accurate and important copyright messages in our part of the world. I know it is difficult in usa to understand how the world works, when you're used to looking at your flagpole and singing national anthems, but maybe next time you will actually read the bullshit.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 07:39am

    Creating and publishing any creative work [..] doesn’t give you any understanding of how copyright works at all.
    I think the above claim is blatantly wrong. Copyright was created to support authors whose work was ripped off by publishers who did not have authorization to sell author's product. As such, copyright law recognizes what kind of activity is detremental to the success of product development. Its the activities like creating and publishing copyrighted works that must be continued even when money from the effort goes to some unrelated copycats.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 04:33am

    There are some works from between the 1930s and 1978 that also in the public domain since they failed to renew licenses
    Thats only because usa didn't sign berne convention rules until 1988... under berne, copyright is automatic and does not require registration...

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 06:05pm

    asking a fish at the bottom of the ocean to help address climate change.
    I can help with that. I know where the fish we eat comes from, i-e- norwegians are responsible for 60% of all fish eaten in finland, so we just need to pass the information through our retailers to the norwegian fish farms and they can then start fixing the climate change as requested.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 05:17pm

    You wouldn’t have to ask for permission from a person who doesn’t own the copyright and didn’t decide to release the work under the open license but merely passed it on via the permission automatically granted by the license itself.
    This sounds very wrong. The law does not work this way. Authorized vendor requirement in the law is there because the default behavior is that you need to be able to pass some money to the author, and not everyone in the world is authorized to sell you permission to use the software. Authors have various ways to pass the authorization forward in their sales organisations, but none of those authorization passing techniques allow you to skip the part where users find authorized vendor. None of the sales organizations can reach user's home, so it is user's responsibility to travel to the authorized vendor who is able to take your money and give a permission to use the software in return.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 03:49pm

    Open source software does not need protections against copyright infringements, since it’s part of the license to permit distribution almost anywhere and to anyone
    This isn't true. Open source still needs to respect copyright of other people, even if they allow their own code to be copied freely. This means that if users are giving urls to your software and software loads some data from the web, the software author need to ensure that the data loaded was not pirated. Since users provided the url/internet location, checking if the material is pirated becomes slightly more difficult/currently impossible to programmatically check it. For this reason, open source software when they load data from user-defined urls, need to have a section in their terms of service that pirated material must not be used in any urls typed to the software's input slots. Basically software's legality fails only if users break the conditions described in the TOS.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 03:36pm

    Cite the lawsuit from these organizations or their member corporations against torrenting software.
    check this article about meta's AI branch to fight publishers about meta leeching their AI data via torrent from pirate sites, and meta lost the fight: https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-lawsuit/

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 03:23pm

    Second, you stated (incorrectly) on September 15th, 2024 that “everything created by mankind is covered by copyright.” This is factually incorrect. Public domain works are not covered by copyright.
    You're missing context here. Some idiot was claiming that all content items in the internet can be freely used without considering copyright at all, simply because internet publishes the material to everyone and their mother. That simply wasn't true, and the default operation for all copyrighted works is that you need to obtain license to use them in any way. Public domain is such a small piece of the pie that it can be ignored completely, and noone would want to use the content from 1930's anyway. They didn't even have jpg standard back then.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 01:25pm

    we’re talking about US copyright law! That’s all we’ve ever been talking about here.
    You really dont get it. The laws and regulations done by USA copyright office are being copied by companies all over the world. The countries outside of usa must allow those stupid rules whether they wanted it or not, simply because global companies are following the usa rules. Even when the usa rules are completely ridiculous, the horror is being copied all the time all over the world and then we have to suffer the consiquences. This is why usa rules are not just applying to the usa area, but it has wider impact. We should just require that usa respects their dominant position and keep the rules stable and not bring in stupid stuff that doesn't work everywhere is the known universe.

  • On the post: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report On AI Training Errs On Fair Use

    terop ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 01:00pm

    You can have more experience in underwater basket-weaving but if we’re not discussing that topic,
    You should increase the scope of your rules to contain larger area of the world than your tiny usa pond. I'm thinking maybe berne rules are still not containing everything needed, when china, asia and africa rules should be included too. Staying in your local bubble is never too healthy.

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