Right, sure, I hadn't really thought about how copyright isn't really enforceable against individuals. That's very interesting.
However, I'm really not sure how this is relevant to your moral stance on commercial use of "public" personal information.
Why do you believe it's reasonable to prevent unauthorized commercial exploitation of creative works, but not to prevent unauthorized commercial exploitation of personal information.
The former simply affects the small percentage of people who sell their works.
The latter affects the vast majority of the population who receive targeted spam, have their information collated and sold for profiling, are victims of identity fraud when those databases are inevitably leaked, etc.
For what it's worth, as I mentioned in my first comment, the GDPR absolutely gives me rights to control how my personal information is used. And the GDPR has a near total exemption for individual use.
What benefits do you see of commercial use against the wishes of the person that published it that outweigh the risks? (making money isn't a benefit)
I think you got the wrong idea if you were thinking I was saying copyright isn’t enforceable “against individuals.”
My example of copyleft was specifically about the thing the Affero GPL tries to avoid (to unknown success): the possibility of someone using GPLed libraries to set up a commercial web service. Because they never release the binary, but only have people interact with it over the Internet, there’s no derivative work being made available in the commercial domain. So copyright doesn’t apply. Even though you’re a company making money off GPLed libraries!
However, I'm really not sure how this is relevant to your moral stance on commercial use of "public" personal information.
Why do you believe it's reasonable to prevent unauthorized commercial exploitation of creative works, but not to prevent unauthorized commercial exploitation of personal information.
The former simply affects the small percentage of people who sell their works.
The latter affects the vast majority of the population who receive targeted spam, have their information collated and sold for profiling, are victims of identity fraud when those databases are inevitably leaked, etc.
For what it's worth, as I mentioned in my first comment, the GDPR absolutely gives me rights to control how my personal information is used. And the GDPR has a near total exemption for individual use.
What benefits do you see of commercial use against the wishes of the person that published it that outweigh the risks? (making money isn't a benefit)