Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 21/07/2025I have colleagues who have been fighting to keep fair use from being chucked out with every single batch of tech-related bathwater for the last quarter century. We're tired, guys. 142451 0
Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 21/07/2025Fair use is what enables quote-dunking. It's what lets you make fun of elected officials by quoting their own words back at them. It's what allows gifs to exist in the first place. It's what makes software interoperable. It underpins literally everything online. 4550117 0
Berix @berix.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Admittedly, my experience with fair use is mostly in regards to parody and review purposes from prior experiences, but how does fair use protect these things in a way that anti-SLAPP and other 1A laws don't cover?Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻@mrose.inkOne of the fun parts of policy work is that you have a handful of extremely important, esoteric, but load-bearing legal concepts (like fair use) that only ever make it into public consciousness when they're being targeted for destruction, and public opinion about them is entirely outcome-dependent. 100 0
J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Not a dead on point idea, but it's how bad facts make bad law. We all feel like we know what the result should be, but it has a difficult path of being isolated from facts where the result "should" be otherwise. 030 0
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025the UK doesn't have the same concept of fair use as US law does and we still have quote-dunking... 130 0
Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 21/07/2025But the furor around AI training is poised to take out fair use at the knees--not because of an objection to the actual doctrine, but because the fury at AI companies is real, justified, and *completely blind* to the second-order consequences of what they're demanding. 17582123 0
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