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Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
Nina Paley's TEDxMaastricht talk arguing against copyright and for copyleft and free culture. She argues that restricting ideas harms creativity and that culture belongs to everyone.
Why HN readers recommended it
Brought up in copyright, public domain and AI-training debates as a provocative argument for abolishing copyright.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TEDx Talks
- Topic
- copyright and free culture
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Yes! Same takeaway, and the main reason I published my thesis online first, turning it into a video tutorial to boot: [LINK] . Specifically I was frustrated at all the sources I had to get behind various kinds of walls, pay- and otherwise: [LINK] Nina …
qqn on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)Copyright Is Brain Damage by Nina Paley [1] claimed that culture is like a bunch of neurons passing and evolving data to each other, and copyright is like severing the ties between the neurons, like brain damage. It also presented [2] an alternative way of …
CaptainFever on Hacker News · 2023-12
In The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
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