The British government has ruled that Google must allow publishers to opt out of being eaten by AI. This is a good move, but it’s only one company and one country, and it DOESN’T REQUIRE PAYMENT for the gobbled-up material.
It’s time for a new international agreement with enough teeth to bite back.
A similar technical leap happened in the 1880s when telegraph cables, railroads, linotypes and steam-powered presses made distribution of text cheap and easy. Before those technologies, printing was only somewhat cheaper than writing in terms of manhours, and it wasn’t worth the time and trouble to cross borders with text.
In 1891 the International Copyright Convention established methods to prosecute cross-border copying.
The DARPA web was established to violate all treaties and agreements. NSA wanted to read and manipulate everything everywhere, and it succeeded. Now AI, funded and operated by the same Deepstate that gave us the web, is breaking copyrights in an infinitely wider and more criminal way.
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