Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was

Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The idea of copyright is to protect the financial rights of creatives, thus incentivising people to make more stuff, right?

  Well even before AI, it wasn’t doing its job very well on that front. The only ones with the power and money to be able to leverage copyright to protect their rights are those who are already so powerful that they don’t need those protections — big music labels and the like. Individual creatives were already being fucked over by the system long before AI.

  If you haven’t read the article, I’d encourage you to give it a try. Or perhaps this one, which goes into depth on the intrinsic tensions within copyright law.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You probably should’ve because yeah, the way AI companies are testing creative works is disgusting and downright wrong, but copyright law has very much been broken ever since the Internet because a thing. It’s just silly to treat works published on the internet the same way you treat books, paintings and DVDs.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why tie it to death, why not plain 5 years?

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  • Tweet@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If it was the day after they died, mightn’t that have an unintended consequence of making it more likely that copyright holders would start “falling out of windows” just when it’s convenient for producers and AI crooks to snaffle up their content, royalty-free?

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    • Tehdastehdas@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Isn’t that how inheritance works?

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      • Tweet@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well yeah, it is currently. But not if the work becomes PD when you die, as OP is suggesting.

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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      … murder is also illegal?

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      • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not for certain people.

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      • Tweet@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So you’re an author and the only thing between a billion dollar studio and a royalty-free production of your work (that you have no creative input into) is your own death. And you’d feel fine and safe with that because “murder is illegal”?

        It’s hard to get away unnoticed with producing a work that infringes copyright, since they tend to have to be released to the public, and from a known source. Getting away with murder is a cinch in comparison.

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