Given that the rationale was a false accusation of putting adult material in front of children, my guess is they're going to weaponize the copyright office to refuse to register copyrights for works dealing with LGBTQ or racial and gender justice issues. - ThreadSky

esqueer.net • 1 day ago

Given that the rationale was a false accusation of putting adult material in front of children, my guess is they're going to weaponize the copyright office to refuse to register copyrights for works dealing with LGBTQ or racial and gender justice issues.

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Not that it matters to Trump, but is this even legal? Register is appointed by the Librarian, not the president. And she is a legislative branch employee, not executive.

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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cogbarn.bsky.social•1 day ago

This also “justifies” banning Wikipedia

fishqueen.bsky.social•1 day ago

How, they can't ban websites.

thegreatwroggi.bsky.social•1 day ago

The stated goal is because they said Muskrat wasn't allowed to mine the copyrighted media to train his AI models. It's a lawless grift.
https://bsky.app/profile/digiphile.bsky.social/post/3lou5nat6qc24

thegreatwroggi.bsky.social•1 day ago

This should be legally challenged and is that happening?

cassandraoftroy.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are looking at every conceivable way to violate the 1A.

weel.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Don’t copyrights under US law exist without registration?

weel.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This seems pretty transparently to please the LLM lobby…

schroedinger.bsky.social•19 hours ago

"In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section “Copyright Registration.”" https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

schroedinger.bsky.social•19 hours ago

So if I'm following correctly, your copyright presumably isn't worth much if the government won't let you register it when you decide you need to enforce it.

clintonharrisgal.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Correct

nationalsecuritylaw.org•1 day ago

IIRC there are some courts that have held that you can't copyright obscenity, so this could be step 1 in teeing up that argument for the 5th circuit or SCOTUS.

maddie.gay•1 day ago

I think you’re thinking of trademarks

nationalsecuritylaw.org•1 day ago

I know there's a trademark exception for offensive, immoral, and scandalous, but there are some weird copyright opinions out there too.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•1 day ago

There's a summary at Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Swarm Sharing Hash File, 821 F. Supp. 2d 444, 447 n.2 (D. Mass. 2011)

ashbasher22nerd.bsky.social•15 hours ago

AKA. Nahtzee rhetoric.

ashinclouds.bsky.social•1 day ago

That was exactly where my brain went to when I learned of the rationale.

fishqueen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems its more to do with AI.

rigamarock.bsky.social•23 hours ago

but i’m sure the free speech warriors at the free press will be all over this assault on the first amendment [doing the jack off motion]

maraleia.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fact that Congressional Dems aren't doing anything to tell the American public that Donald and his MAGAt handlers are erasing knowledge from this country is fucking enraging.

keithkothman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not sure about the trademark vs copyright issue here, but head of copyright just released a report saying that training AI material on copyrighted works was wrong. Musk and the tech overlords can't have that.

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