AI companies are currently blatantly ignoring copyright. Furthermore, content without a specific license is already protected under copyright, provided they are creative enough for licensing and copyright to make sense.
The question currently being fought in courts is: do AI companies need permission and licenses to train AI on copyrighted content? If so, no creative unlicensed comments will be usable for AI in the first place. If they’re not, these licenses don’t really apply.
However: you, as a random internet person, do get additional rights. You are bound by copyright law, and copyright law says you can’t just take someone else’s movie/picture/meme/poem/book/comment and post is elsewhere. With the CC license, you are able to do so, provided you follow the requirements described in the license.
Certain websites, like StackOverflow, apply these licenses on user generated content by default. Without such a license, copy/pasting from StackOverflow could be a copyright violation in some cases, which it now isn’t!
AI companies are currently blatantly ignoring copyright. Furthermore, content without a specific license is already protected under copyright, provided they are creative enough for licensing and copyright to make sense.
The question currently being fought in courts is: do AI companies need permission and licenses to train AI on copyrighted content? If so, no creative unlicensed comments will be usable for AI in the first place. If they’re not, these licenses don’t really apply.
However: you, as a random internet person, do get additional rights. You are bound by copyright law, and copyright law says you can’t just take someone else’s movie/picture/meme/poem/book/comment and post is elsewhere. With the CC license, you are able to do so, provided you follow the requirements described in the license.
Certain websites, like StackOverflow, apply these licenses on user generated content by default. Without such a license, copy/pasting from StackOverflow could be a copyright violation in some cases, which it now isn’t!