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Exactly and it's just stunning hypocrisy on the part of OpenAI who have been sucking up all data with complete disregard for ownership. Also agree that copyright wouldn't even be necessary in a socialist society, while it only ends up being abused under capitalism.
I would argue that a new socialist country should retain copyright, but drastically shorten its duration (back to the original 7 years or less). The reason being that copyright is the mechanism that protects the copyleft. Without copyright, the GPL would no longer be enforceable. I'm no fan of copyright and would love to see it eventually abolished, but it has its uses today.
Yeah, capitalist relations need to be abolished first.