overview for Wiz

I'm a writer, performing artist, designer, and illustrator. I have thought about copyright quite a bit. I have released some of my stuff into the public domain, as well as the Creative Commons. If you want to use my work, you may - according to the licenses that I provide.

I also think copyright law is way out of whack. It should go back to - at most - life of author. This "life of author plus 95 years" is ridiculous. I lament that so much great work is being lost or forgotten because of the oppressive copyright laws - especially in the area of computer software.

But tech-bros that want my work to train their LLMs - they can fuck right off. There are legal thresholds that constitute "fair use" - Is it used for an academic purpose? Is it used for a non-profit use? Is the portion that is being used a small part or the whole thing? LLM software fail all of these tests.

They can slurp up the entirety of Wikipedia, and they do. But they are not satisfied with the free stuff. But they want my artistic creations, too, without asking. And they want to sell something based on my work, making money off of my work, without asking.

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago

It's not my goddamned planet monkey-boy!

The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

The things is, they can have scads of free stuff that is not copyrighted. But they are greedy and want copyrighted stuff, too

Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Hey folks, nothing to see here. Just the .ml account telling us that Russian influence in the US is overblown! (Just as the DOJ shows us the tip of the iceberg of Russia desperately trying to get Trump elected.)

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Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US (wedistribute.org)

submitted 4 months ago by Wiz@midwest.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.

In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:

Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.

Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.