Now, some could argue that search engines like Google have been committing copyright for years.
Lol.
I'll be here all year folks!
I see another problem, and that is developers behind the scenes who are telling this bots what information to copy and what not to copy.
We can already see that all AI tools have a huge bias and they are not neutral in most cases, but clearly influenced by people who paid for them to be created.
We can already see that all AI tools have a huge bias and they are not neutral in most cases, but clearly influenced by people who paid for them to be created.
So true. Luckily that is a problem that could be solved by looking at the search industry. robots.txt was created to tell a search engine which areas of the site to parse and which to ignore. There is no reason a bot cannot stick to those restrictions as well.
Good luck I hear you say? It's true that search engines are not required to comply with these requests, but those that do are generally more respected. No bot maker will care about respect, but he will care once he and his clients get hit with cease and desist notices due to copyright issues.
Every website has a standard boilerplate cover all copyright. A webmaster could change that wording to clarify proper use - as described in the robots.txt file - and offer reasonable copyright to the allowed areas only. If a bot disrespects the robots.txt then the bot owner and maker could be held libel for copyright.
Anyone who torrents has received a threatening letter from their ISP about copyright. Most of the time these can be ignored, unless you are a abusive seeder. Image the bot owners being hit with these letters through their ISP? And if they go through a VPN, the copyright owners will sue the VPN to shut you off or shut down. Who do you think has more money to spend on lawsuits - professional content creators or VPN operators?