Culture is based on the creation of those that came before. Genres of music are created as people try to mimic styles of those before…one could argue that they “trained themselves on the previous dataset”. No one creates anything in a vacuum. They utilize things that we collectively have contributed. Hell, language and writing is the open source thing that we collectively own that ppl use to create their stuff. The creation came after going to schools that we collectively pay for. And travelling on shared roads. It’s the standing on the shoulders of giants — except its really just stacked people all adding their bits.
Also the latin alphabet originated from the Euboean alphabet. Euboia is my home, i live here. My guesstimate is that all latin writers, wouldn't like to pay copyright for their use of our Greek letters in their everyday lives.[1]
I mean everyone who writes right now, into this HN thread, owns copyright to someone for the letters, amirite? That someone is me. Anyway, long story short, copyright was always a pretty ridiculous idea, alongside with patents of course, but it is only right now, with programs that can mimic writing style, painting style, speech style etc, that is obvious to everyone.
As a side note, there was a Greek private torrent tracker, blue-whitegt, which today would be a serious competitor to American companies like netflix or youtube, but it was shut down because, surprise surprise, there were some copyright issues, despite the site being a really quality service, a paid service of course. Blue-whitegt today would be a 10 billion to 100 billion company, instead all the profits aggregated to American companies.
When it comes to copyright, very soon everyone on the planet, will have monetizable torrent seeding. All of these copyright chickens, are coming home to roost!
