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[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Copyright is already finite.

Copyright initially held by a company expires 95 years from the year of its first publication or 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever comes first.

Copyright initially held by an individual expires 70 years after the individual dies. That could easily be a longer period than company-held copyright.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I say, just reducing that time, or make it case dependent would be a great start

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would certainly benefit companies developing generative AI. The sooner something loses copyright protection, the easier it is to use it as training data.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Big AI companies already have that data used, and copyright is mostly a concern for the openSource models.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

AI companies that used copyrighted data without paying are facing multiple lawsuits. Those lawsuits would go away if copyright went away.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There’s no limit on lengthening copyright. Currently it’s 95/120 years, but that can always change (and did for many years of lengthening).