• RiQuY
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    109 months ago

    I’ve been seeing for a while comments like yours that put a license link at the end of the comment. Can you explain to me the benefits of doing that or is it makes any difference? If I’m not mistaken the content posted on a Lemmy instace adheres to the license that the instance is using.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 months ago

      It’s purely for commercial AI on my end. Researchers have gotten LLMs to spit out their training data: street addresses, medical data, entire comments, and of course licenses.
      Some countries are still deciding whether commercial LLMs are infringing on copyright by training on copyrighted material without approval, others have already decided. I think the major economical zones that will impact legality will be the USA, EU, and China.

      Until a decision has been made, I’ll continue adding the “free for all except commercial use” license.


      Also, copyright is very complicated. If you copy an entire article from a newspaper and paste it into a post on a lemmy instance, which license does it have? That of the newspaper or that of the lemmy instance? If it’s the former, then what’s the difference if it comes from your brain and not a newspaper? Would it make a difference if the comment were written first on a blog and then copied to lemmy? If it’s the latter, then what’s the point point of the newspaper or the author ever copyrighting it somewhere else if it can just be overridden?
      Next question regarding copyright, since comments are copied and stored on different servers, who would then own the copyright? The lemmy instance sending the comment or the one receiving it?

      I’m not a lawyer and probably things aren’t clear cut. Might be one in one country and a different thing in another.

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        You’re wasting your time, and you look stupid doing it. Absolutely no one cares about your little link or what it says. It won’t stop a single thing.

      • RiQuY
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        19 months ago

        Are you adding it manually or do you have some sort of automation?