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There it is folks: @photomatt's attorneys make it clear that he thinks you're all idiots at his mercy for choosing to build a business on Wordpress. https://t.co/bT7tP30hpv

A lot of what’s built the World Wide Web in the open information infrastructure that we understand is just actually embedded in a few laws that basically make it so it can be user originated content that can be then hosted on other companies’ websites without having them have liability. As long as, “Hey, we’re in copyright infringement,” if they... See more

Founders tend to have these “Why now?” insights without recognizing how profound they are. When I started my blogging company, Weblogs, Inc., in 2004, I had a very simple thesis: I believed that great new writers publishing five short, unfiltered posts a day would get more readers than established journalists writing one story, edited by a half

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Let’s compare: Readers assume content is free. Music became free. Napster wasn’t about making music free as much as it was about user experience and user control. Listeners demanded a better experience and Napster was the catalyst for that. Newsletters, and curation are similar. Out of Napster came streaming. With a new user experience and ability... See more

Copyright is, and always has been, a compromise between incentivising creators and increasing social welfare by promoting cultural participation, sharing knowledge and affording creative freedoms. That compromise is highly dependent on the nature of the technology. And LLMs (and the wave of digitisation from the decades before) have made the need... See more

this line from Anton Ego's speech in Ratatouille should be required reading for every tech media person https://t.co/rE1RTQATAN

We’ve digitized 2.5 million books. Google has as well, but they’re locked up. They locked up the public domain, which we think of as a sin. The library sort of made elite services around it just for themselves.