By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026But they don't have to do this if they don't want to, and even if they do, neither their wages nor their headcount can be reduced. The media companies insist that scraping is a copyright violation, that it's "theft." As a matter of law, this is far from obvious or settled. 38/ 1313
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The process of making transient copies of many works, performing mathematical analysis on them, and then publishing that analysis as software is *not* obviously a copyright violation, and anyone who claims otherwise doesn't understand copyright: pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/a... 39/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Copyright won’t solve creators’ Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1273
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Worse: by demoting a labor rights issue to a mere property rights issue, AI critics are setting workers up to fail. Say the issue with AI training really is mere copyright. 40/ 1319