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Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren’t limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 1 week ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/libreculture@lemmy.ca

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes. I'm pretty sure that's 100% correct with the person who creates a picture with generative AI. I think the far more interesting question (and most discussed one, apart from this court case) is, what happens to the transformed works. All the questions regarding the datasets, their licensing etc.

And copyright, IP and patents are really weird. I think extending copyright to 70 years after death isn't exactly done to foster innovation. We get all the third parties, labels, publishers, industry, web platforms earn probably way more than they should and the artists themselves not enough.

And then with every example there's more weirdness. You can definitely patent the process of making an espresso. Maybe copyright a recipe in some jurisdictions. Patent a potato, and the machine that digs it up.
With the camera, I have some additional weird rules. Once I snap a picture of a building, somehow the intellectual rights of the architect can get in the mix. Sometimes they don't. I think some rules governing immaterial and intellectual goods are a bit complex. And they don't always achieve what they're trying to do.