Filippo Valsorda: In 2020, under lockdown, I was in calls with some amazing lawyers to push back against the RIAA's ridiculous claim that youtube-dl was illegal. github.blog/2020-11-16-s... That is to say, if you are cheering them on now because you hate AI, you forget what copyright maximalism is. Just block me.

In 2020, under lockdown, I was in calls with some amazing lawyers to push back against the RIAA's ridiculous claim that youtube-dl was illegal. github.blog/2020-11-16-s... That is to say, if you are cheering them on now because you hate AI, you forget what copyright maximalism is. Just block me.

The RIAA lawsuit against Suno and Udio is so so so bad. Not only does it not make sense, it actually goes against what the RIAA itself has been arguing in court lately.

Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is backgithub.blog Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

Again, the only thing copyright maximalism can deliver is a world where AI models are very expensive and licensed from the likes of Getty and Universal Studios, not a world without AI. Here it is spelled out in the Ars Technica article. arstechnica.com/information-... bsky.app/profile/fili...

I have also made this point: www.techdirt.com/2023/12/04/i...

If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Techwww.techdirt.com There’s been this weird idea lately, even among people who used to recognize that copyright only empowers the largest gatekeepers, that in the AI world we have to magically flip the script on copyr…

The only way I would ever lionize the RIAA would involve literal lions.

Do these people cheering on the RIAA remember the nineties.

no and the problem is a lack of authentic oral culture in the internet milieu

looking forward to a future where every creative must tithe to the hedge fund that owns the copyright to every work that ever slightly inspired their own works.

Thank you.

A lot of people really struggle with the idea that both parties to a conflict can both be absolutely fucking awful.

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