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Codarobo
@Codarobo

Hey does this mean we can go back to hating copyright though, i liked when we all agreed copyright was a bad system instead of one we need to expand

I feel like we’ve just been through a bizarre period of copyright becoming inexplicably popular amongst creative leftist types online because of AI stuff and while I’m sympathetic to that I think copyright is, on balance, much worse


MoxieCat
@MoxieCat

"Artists should have control over how their work is used, as a matter of basic respect!"
Yeah!!

"Therefore we should strengthen the laws that major corporations have exploited for decades to gain a stranglehold on creative industries and keep certain artists on a leash."
Wait, no, hold on-


InsomniaInk
@InsomniaInk

As always, the existence of copyright only has any value at all, minuscule though it may be, because artists are required to ply their craft to fill their bellies. The moment that capitalism ceases to be the economic system that a people languish under is also the moment that copyright should be erased in its entirety from existence. Even now we should limit our use of it as much as possible (primarily to disallow large corporations to use our creations to make money with but not to disallow the same actions from small independent creators not using our creations for nefarious reasons).

If our basic needs are provided for and we can create simply for the enjoyment and the cultural enrichment of others, there is no value in policing who can do what with other people's creations. Honestly, in an edenic world like that I would feel honored to have other artists do horrible wretched things with my characters and creations that I would never do.

(In addendum, it is always moral and right to create art in which disney characters are shown doing very un-disneylike things and release it into the wild.)


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in reply to @Codarobo's post:

copyright has always been dogshit but i think there is definitely room for "copyright sucks ass and is way too long" and "we shouldn't allow everyone's creative work to be hoovered up by a machine to avoid copyright"

I don’t disagree, there’s just been for a couple years a lot of people explicitly cheering for US courts to expand copyright in cases related to ai. I think there should be other avenues for regulation besides copyright

there should, yet there aren't. copyright is presently just about the only law on the books that purportedly confers the rights to the fruit of one's own labor (which is obviously why most places you lose any and all copyright to anything done during work, on company equipment, or even (in texas) while you have a job at all)

it's a vile tool of capitalists and it's also all we have. master's tools master's house moment 📸

in reply to @MoxieCat's post:

That’s totally it for me. Benn Jordan made a video awhile back that really resonated with me about how AI generation
(in the context of the music industry, specifically, since that’s his area of expertise) was small fish compared to… everything the big labels have been doing to artists since literally the beginning of the industry, and that even if you could get rid of it entirely, it really doesn’t fix what was already deeply fucked. Strengthening copyright is a devil’s bargain to give those corporations even more power over people actually making stuff, in ways that will outlast the current trend in AI.