[HN Gopher] Elon Musk's X can't invent its own copyright law, ju...
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       Elon Musk's X can't invent its own copyright law, judge says
        
       Author : MBCook
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-05-10 22:04 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
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       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | Judge Alsup!
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       | Man it's so just so refreshing when people are competent and
       | capable & know their stuff. Alsup and Senator Ron Wyden are the
       | two people who reliably make me feel better about the
       | intersection of technology and law.
       | 
       | The topic here reminds me so strongly of _Web Scraping for Me but
       | not for Thee_ , which talks about how viciously companies are
       | trying to fight scraping on the public internet. The use of
       | contract law - writing whatever terms of use you want - to erode
       | away at humanity's rights has been a long running war, and it's
       | great to see some push back against companies being able to strip
       | rights away from the public as they please (of course add in any
       | DRM at all and suddenly that same exercise of rights is now a
       | felony sooo don't get too happy yet). This could totally be a
       | momentous red letter day!
       | https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-f...
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264676
        
       | sgc wrote:
       | I love it. The permissiveness of copyright law preempts
       | restrictive user agreements. Finally, a drop of sanity in an
       | insane world.
        
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