"Nuh uh! Copyright law says you can't! Also, we have licenses, and lawyers! If you didn't want us using your work, you should've said so before we scraped it!"
As if anyone knew their data was being scraped before these AI models were let loose on the internet. 🙄
Couple decades ago, a friend wanted to publish a newspaper at Burning Man, where playa dust is especially hostile to electrically charged laser printer drums, and picked up a Mimeograph off of eBay.
Sure, if you want some hefty fines or whatever other legal punishment they seek against you. 😉 It's an OK practice when Microshit do it, not ok when anyone else does.
Microsoft: the company with (now-ex-) executives who claimed Open Source was Communist and then tried to make $ from royalties of Open Source software? That Microsoft? The one that is violently anti-piracy? That Microsoft?
Seriously, software companies don't see other industries IP as they see SW.
Just thinking about how our university wanted us to post all our scholarly articles for free as a way to break for-profit journals and many of my non-profit publishers have said no way. I’m starting to think publishers were wise.
