The promise of a new, broader copyright banning scraping, mathematical analysis and writing code is like the promise of DRM: ia prison masquerading as a fortress.
Because if that new copyright controlling training *is* created, media companies will immediately amend those one-sided, take-it-or-leave-it contracts to demand that every creative worker sign over that new right to them. Hell, they're *already* doing this in anticipation of that change:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence
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