Maybe it should be one of his concerns? I'm not sure how he would feel about someone stealing his work and commercializing it.
Covered in the article, his work is being commercialized and profited from:
> Schuhmann hasn’t profited from LAION and says he isn’t interested in doing so. “I’m still a high school teacher. I have rejected job offers from all different kinds of companies because I wanted this to stay independent,”
The point I'm trying to get across is that, at least to me, it seems incredibly irresponsible and borderline unethical.
This is incredibly reductive. Property rights exist on the internet, too. Like how someone can own a domain name or the copyright to a photograph or short story.