Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation
Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation Andrew [email protected] 18, 2026 Copyright law isn’t “natural” in the sense that it doesn’t stem from some higher principle. It’s easy to see that laws against murder or theft derive from morals and natural rights. Copyright is more like a government subsidy, where we’ve decided that someone who creates something has the exclusive right to sell it, and the state will spend its own money to intervene to protect that exclusivity.
- ▪Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation Andrew [email protected] 18, 2026 Copyright law isn’t “natural” in the sense that it doesn’t stem from some higher principle.
- ▪It’s easy to see that laws against murder or theft derive from morals and natural rights.
- ▪Copyright is more like a government subsidy, where we’ve decided that someone who creates something has the exclusive right to sell it, and the state will spend its own money to intervene to protect that exclusivity.
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Updating IP Regulations for AI Distillation Andrew [email protected] 18, 2026 Copyright law isn’t “natural” in the sense that it doesn’t stem from some higher principle. It’s easy to see that laws against murder or theft derive from morals and natural rights. Copyright is more like a government subsidy, where we’ve decided that someone who creates something has the exclusive right to sell it, and the state will spend its own money to intervene to protect that exclusivity. There’s certainly a fair version of the world where you can copy anything you encounter freely and don’t owe anybody anything. The ostensible argument for copyright, as I understand it, is that, along with other “intellectual property” laws like patents, it encourages innovation.
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