A collage would be fair use, yes I believe that’s already been established but again I’m not like a copyright lawyer or anything like that. I’ll leave that for others to research and prove in the courtroom.
I would say that your first example, as it file is not really accurate but the collage may be more so. It’s a statistical model that calculates statistically what a thing should be. Is it learning? Maybe maybe not.
Thank you very much for summoning Jeff Goldblum’s voice into my head.
I think that the argument is that it’s not actually copying it and instead learning from it.
I feel like they really have to pay something. Maybe their argument is right and they shouldn’t pay full price given that if a human did the same thing to learn to make music, they also wouldn’t be billed in that way, given it’s openly available.
Maybe they are required to give a portion of profits back to the source materials creators?
The purpose of the copyright system is that someone should not be allowed to take your material and sell it to someone else passing it off as your own and make the profit thereby stealing the profit from you. I don’t think that’s what’s happening here but also at the same time it doesn’t seem like what they’re doing is right because they’re making profit off of somebody else’s work without paying anything.
It feels to me like the answer should be somewhere in the middle.
I certainly don’t have the answers though.
For them I don’t think it matters. I think the whole goal is to have further awareness and having people burning time on it like we’re doing right now brings more awareness to the issue regardless what side you’re on. They believe their side is just so that it will win out in general and bringing further awareness and making people think about it can only be a good thing.
Tl;Dr: awareness.
I believe the end goal is to cause conversations like the above.
I wish you were right. I really wish you were. I don’t think you are. I’m not trying to be a contrarian but I don’t think for a large number of organizations that this is the case.
For what it’s worth I truly hope that I’m 100% incorrect and everybody learns from this bullshit but that may not be the case.
Kinda. We referred to them as “militant vegans”
Maybe I just need to meet nice vegans. Lol
I dunno, I’ve met some bitterly unkind vegans that might answer this question for you pretty conclusively.
Agreed. Based on the little I know, the issues sound like they’re structure/design related.
Edit: didn’t check context and as a result was repetitive.
Based on what Beehaw admins said, I really wonder if the issues they mentioned will be addressed and their recounting of their experiences with devs make me wonder what the devs’ priorities are and why they chose them.
It’s situations like this that kept my employer from ever embracing FOSS solutions. If you can’t staff to fork and support it, you are at the mercy of another’s whim.
As with all things, there is surely another side and also the truth, so I’m interested in seeing where this goes, how it turns out.
Maybe fix some structural issues? Apparently Beehaw is looking to shut down and or completely defederate. There are complaints that serious issues are being ignored by devs.
If fixes were on a roadmap, I think that would help.
I don’t know much of anything about the backend, but if a whole community is considering leaving, it may be time to reassess priorities and goals.
Archival grade m-discs, apparently. I had the same question. https://www.howtogeek.com/858426/whats-the-best-way-to-store-data-for-decades-or-centuries/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=archival+mdisk