French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization.
Good.
For once, hit 'em with a fine for each and every instance of infringement.
Not one of those bullshit “all in one” fines either.
Make it count or it’s meaningless.
@Tea@programming.dev being threaten with jail time and fines won’t be enough, but the potential punishment needs to be so severe and harasment so relentless they’d consider hanging themselves instead. Aaron Swartz will not be forgotten.
Legit fuck meta I hope somebody Mario parites with zuck
Don’t you worry, I’m sure jd couch fucker vance will step in and threaten to pull the US out of NATO again if we don’t allow US companies to rob us blind.
Fuck the USA
Fuck em up!
Excellent!
I wonder what their argument is. French copyright law governs France. People in the US have no obligation to follow it. Might as well fine people in the UK for driving on the wrong side of the road.
I was about to correct you before I realized that you must be trolling. In case you are not: Please take your statement and follow it to its natural conclusion. Think about the logical consequences of how things would work if your statement was correct.
What? Did you reply to the wrong post?
Yes, that’s where the trouble starts. I think later treaties reinforce the principle. I’d really like to know how the rights owners argue to get around that.
That’s not how international companies work. They ARE in France.
They follow French law in France and US law in the US. How else could it work?
They can’t choose to apply US labor law in France. Do you think they can be made to follow French labor law in Silicon Valley?
Let’s put it in simpler terms. Imagine it’s a French made move and meta just ripped it and it’s selling it back in the web.
As soon as that product, the riped french movie, is available in France for sale they are selling it through their French branch, which would be breaking French law on French soil, thus could be easily prosecuted.
If they do not comply they could be lawfully ban from operating on France.
Haven’t you seen what happened with twitter in Brazil?
That’s where it gets interesting. The EU can, of course, regulate imports. If there’s a movie that is public domain in the US but not in France, then France/the EU could regulate the importation and sale of copies. I don’t know how that is actually regulated. What it can’t do is award damages for copies being made and used in the US.
There is a brief mention of the EU’s AI Act. That is certainly the basis for the lawsuit, rather than copyright law.
That means, if this case proceeds, it will be basically decided by the CJEU and create precedents for the entire EU.
