Copyright is for topics like redistribution of the source material. You can’t add arbitrary terms to a copyright claim that go beyond what copyright law supports.
I think you’re confusing copyright with a EULA. You would need users to agree to the EULA terms before viewing the material. You can’t hide contractual obligations in the footer of your website and call it copyright.
What about if my index says "This are the EULA, by clicking "Next" or "Enter", you are accepting them", and a LLM scrapper "clicks" Next to fetch the rest of the content?
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Copyright is for topics like redistribution of the source material. You can’t add arbitrary terms to a copyright claim that go beyond what copyright law supports.
I think you’re confusing copyright with a EULA. You would need users to agree to the EULA terms before viewing the material. You can’t hide contractual obligations in the footer of your website and call it copyright.
What about if my index says "This are the EULA, by clicking "Next" or "Enter", you are accepting them", and a LLM scrapper "clicks" Next to fetch the rest of the content?
That's how the big software companies have been doing it to us for years, so it does seem like turnabout would be fair play.
"Ah, but for us, it's unenforceable, it's for you little people."
"Copyright? Well if you are a big label, we probably need to talk. Little people? Oh fuck you, just give us your money and creative output."