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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net

people love to just assert things about AI and the law that are at best much murkier/undecided and at worst not at all the case link to the pdf I'm quoting www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

aug 18, 2025, 3:52 am • 17 0

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RedBlackHistoryman @redblackhistoryman.bsky.social

It’s very much a SCOTUS level question that simply hasn’t been litigated to that level yet. Patent office is erring on the side of it being invalid until ruled otherwise by the courts. But there’s larger questions than that, like tort suits against algorithms of which one such work is a thimble.

aug 18, 2025, 4:35 am • 1 0 • view
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It's Chris! @chrisd238.bsky.social

People don't remember how things like vhs recordings of shows, downloading content, format shifting were all grey areas because they were novel uses that weren't explicitly covered. The law is way more "no rule says a dog can't play basketball" than its comfortable to admit

aug 18, 2025, 5:31 am • 24 2 • view
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ersatz haderach @truebe.horse

Fr tho The entire point of English common law is “we can’t meaningfully predict if some animal will learn how to play any sport at some point so some judge is gonna have to wing it if it happens”

aug 18, 2025, 5:39 am • 18 1 • view
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net

sony fought home taping for years!

aug 18, 2025, 5:35 am • 3 0 • view