#(especially thinking of Fat Boy Slim not getting any royalties from The Rockafeller Skank)
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dear lord
#the ways the people misunderstand copyright law#there is no de minimus standard for copyright#NONE#and to say that search engine scraping is the same as scraping for generative AI and therefore fair use... dude no#fair use has to be non competitive with the original rights holder#and generally non commercial#you cannot say in good faith that these plagiarism machines are non competitive#they are actively promoting and going after the ability to make output in a specific artist's style#AND THEN THEY'RE CHARGING PEOPLE MONEY FOR IT#and the ones that aren't /currently/ will be eventually#this isn't a tool for FINDING someone's creative work the way a search engine it#it's a tool for OBSCURING the author's involvement#and then promoting someone saying copyright should only last a decade??? WHAT??#that's shorter than a patent and patents are meant to be the shortest IP term by design#we used to havd shorter copyright terms in this country and guess what? the disneys of the day didn't suffer#the artists were the ones who got screwed over#and to say collective bargaining is going to fix the issue is... well... not uh... supported by history#look up the formation of ASCAP#how they went on strike#and the creation of BMI#understand that artists had their careers entirely derailed as a result and lost their livelihoods because of corporate greed#and like I don't love the ways that sample clearance has evolved#(especially thinking of Fat Boy Slim not getting any royalties from The Rockafeller Skank)#BUT it is a system that could work#OR we look at something like a mechanical#where artists are just automatically paid for use of their work in a dataset#but like#just a massive misunderstanding of the current state and history of copyright law there#and just for the record YES SONNY BONO WAS A MISTAKE AND LIFE + 70 IS EXCESSIVE#but a single decade?? just say you hate working artists and be done with it
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