dwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoPaul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square313linkfedilinkarrow-up1944arrow-down121cross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
arrow-up1923arrow-down1external-linkPaul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. www.theguardian.comdwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square313linkfedilinkcross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down20·3 days agoThat is definitely one of the most cooked takes I’ve heard in a while. Why would anyone create anything if it can immediately be copied with no compensation to you?
minus-square100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 days agoI don’t see how allowing AI robbery barons to steal copyrighted material would benefit a small fish in the pond of IP
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·3 days agoI think copyright should last maximum 10 years. Plenty of time to earn enough from your creation. Imagine how advanced we would be, as a civilization, if everything created before 2015 was free for everybody.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down15·3 days agoHonestly, I think our world would be a lot blander, and we’d have a whole lot less original content.
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minus-squareMain@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down5·3 days agoCreation is its own incentive.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down9·3 days agoAnd I can buy groceries with thoughts and prayers.
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minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoThe original copyright law was created to protect authors from publishers. The current law is an abomination and should be removed.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 days agoYou’re probably right, but saying we should abolish it altogether is insane. There’s a good reason we have these laws.
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoThere are no good reasons.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoReally? Artists getting paid for their work isn’t a good reason?
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minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoSo what’s the alternative? How else would a professional artist make a living?
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoYou don’t need a copyright for that. Copyright doesn’t pay anyone anything.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoI genuinely feel like I’m talking to a wall here.
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThat’s because you don’t understand what copyright legally is.
minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·edit-23 days agoYou know that for the vast majority of human history copyright didn’t exist, and yet people still created art and culture, right? edit: If you’re gonna downvote, have the balls to explain how I’m wrong.
That is definitely one of the most cooked takes I’ve heard in a while.
Why would anyone create anything if it can immediately be copied with no compensation to you?
I don’t see how allowing AI robbery barons to steal copyrighted material would benefit a small fish in the pond of IP
I think copyright should last maximum 10 years. Plenty of time to earn enough from your creation.
Imagine how advanced we would be, as a civilization, if everything created before 2015 was free for everybody.
Honestly, I think our world would be a lot blander, and we’d have a whole lot less original content.
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Creation is its own incentive.
And I can buy groceries with thoughts and prayers.
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The original copyright law was created to protect authors from publishers. The current law is an abomination and should be removed.
You’re probably right, but saying we should abolish it altogether is insane. There’s a good reason we have these laws.
There are no good reasons.
Really? Artists getting paid for their work isn’t a good reason?
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So what’s the alternative? How else would a professional artist make a living?
You don’t need a copyright for that. Copyright doesn’t pay anyone anything.
I genuinely feel like I’m talking to a wall here.
That’s because you don’t understand what copyright legally is.
You know that for the vast majority of human history copyright didn’t exist, and yet people still created art and culture, right?
edit: If you’re gonna downvote, have the balls to explain how I’m wrong.