By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026I'm an artist and a worker. I want to protect my labor interests. So do my peers from across the "creative industries." 3/ 1431
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026But a sizable group of my peers think the way to protect our interests is to expand copyright so it's unambiguously illegal to scrape the internet, analyze files retrieved by scrapers, and publish that analysis (a process more familiarly known as "training AI"): pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/h... 4/pluralistic.netHow To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1307
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026This is a losing strategy. First, because banning scraping, or requiring permission to count the elements in creative works, or demanding a license to publish collections of facts about copyrighted works will inflict enormous collateral damage on a wide variety of socially beneficial activities. 5/ 1378
