AI companies destroying books [LWN.net]

AI companies destroying books

Posted Sep 4, 2026 7:26 UTC (Fri) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: AI companies destroying books by kleptog
Parent article: Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage

One more data point for the argument that Copyright actually leads to cultural destruction (abandonware being the best known one on that side).

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AI companies destroying books

Posted Sep 4, 2026 12:18 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

That can be fixed by limiting copyright terms to something reasonable like 25-30 years instead of the current (in the USA) life of author plus 70 years, or 95 years for a work made for hire.

Straying

Posted Sep 4, 2026 14:05 UTC (Fri) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

As much as I support the idea of "fixing" copyright and capitalism... we've probably strayed past the "on-topic" line at this point, and certainly past the scope of the discussion. There's no path for Debian to do either of those things through a GR, sadly.

Can we end this here and return to regularly scheduled programming?