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President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input
(torrentfreak.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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In short, copyright should not exist because it is a state monopoly.
State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don't think an industry is profitable, the government's job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That's how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn't fucked with by Republicans).
The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.
Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.