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0 pointsbreck2y ago0 comments

> What does a post intellectual property world even look like, though?

It looks like Github! People sharing and collaborating to build new things. No lawyers getting in the way. Attribution is automatically handled by git logs.

It's glorious.

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Timon32y ago

Many parts of Github would not exist without intellectual property laws. If you post code, it's not just a free for all, you still have licenses and own your contributions if not specified otherwise. Especially company stuff would be much, much less open.

That's not to say that every facet of IP law is good, or even a judgement on it. Just pointing out that only parts of Github work like you describe.

breckOP2y ago

> Many parts of Github would not exist without intellectual property laws.

I do not think this is true.

I think most devs on GitHub operate as if there are no IP laws.

I think if they went away, almost nothing would change (some noise around "license" fields would go away).

ChatGTP2y ago

Licensing is very important to open source. It is literally what drives and protects large scale open source innovation and stops it going extinct. It’s actually worth learning about GPL 3.0 and copy left licensing.

Anyway if that goes away. A lot of innovation will too. If privately owned LLMs go on consuming everything, not giving back to the communities that make them what they are. It may erode the system.

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