Comment Re:Legally mandated data retention (Score 1) 33
NYT is making copyright a weapon against creative freedom. With each new work they publish, they reduce our freedom to create. Copyrights last for too long, and have been changed from protecting expression to protecting abstractions. The AFC (abstraction filtration comparison) test and the "total concept and feel" interpretations basically make it impossible to do due diligence, nobody can ensure they don't infringe any abstract idea in all the published works. The law is biased against new creatives and public domain. In fact copyright is extremely outdated, we prefer cooperation, sharing, and doing things together now, and that doesn't work when everyone holds to their royalties like NYT. And focusing on AI infringement is far fetched, AI is by design not a replication machine, copying is a million times easier to achieve already. AI is used for novel outputs.