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Comprehensive intellectual property needs to happen for the modern (digital) era.

Basically the entire legal system needs to be retooled and rethought for computers.



Looks like the entire legal system is being retooled at the moment.


No we just need to enforce the existing laws.

And the legal system is for humans not computers.


Plenty of the existing laws are insane and indefensible. Copyright duration of life of the author plus 70 years? Patents on videogame mechanics?

We need to both reform the laws and enforce them. Otherwise...

>The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.


Pantents on video game mechanics... oh how I wish this weren't true. I would love a first person adventure game with the best mechanics and controls taken from genres that did that mechanics very well.

The one that always comes to mind for me is the boxing controls from Fight Night games. It pains me a little every time I play a game where pugilistic battles come down to smash 1 or 2 buttons.


The existing laws are a problem, and are not enforced in a fair and just manner.

Yes, the legal system is for humans, but we can use technology to improve the system for humans, so it's faster, better and more fair, because humans aren't perfect, and now we have technology to be better than the system create a long time ago. You don't think the legal system should run on pens and paper right? Adapting to typewriters, was a benifit to the system?

Well, video on demand, live streaming, and things like LLMs can also make the system better for humans.


Aren't all LLMs based on models published by the big two or three, so built on IP theft and if you're using them you are guilty of handling stolen goods?


that's the point.




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