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> It's almost as if people believe in fairness and compensating people for their work. Yet in this case we are talking about compensating the compilers/massage
by nwsm 2y ago
> It's almost as if people believe in fairness and compensating people for their work.
Yet in this case we are talking about compensating the compilers/massagers/owners of the datasets, not the original authors from wherever the data was originally scraped.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoCopyright is hideously broken, but in theory: the owners only own it because they compensate the authors, which they only do out of an expectation of future profit (on average). That theory's a fantasy, because extractive systems involving gatekeepers get established, but in this specific case, enforcing copyright would make things fairer for authors. There's no extractive copyright-taking gatekeeper for websites: scrapers don't get copyright, so can't re-license the material they've scraped (unless it's permissively-licensed or something).