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Will IP survive?

We’ve all heard of IP theft from China but if Meta doesn’t face domestic punishment for its wholesale theft I really see no legs left to stand on.




> Will IP survive?

I hope not, at least not in it's present form. As far as copyright goes a return to the Statute of Anne or something similar would provide time for authors to profit from their labours while putting them in the public domain within a reasonable time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne


>but if Meta doesn’t face domestic punishment for its wholesale theft

Is this in reference to AI training data and Meta torrenting stuff? Or did Meta do some other theft?




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