dwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months 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-square333fedilinkarrow-up1947
arrow-up1947external-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-22 months agomessage-square333fedilink
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·2 months agoSo abolish copyright law entirely instead of only allowing theft when capitalists do it.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months 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-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoAnd I can buy groceries with thoughts and prayers.
minus-squarethewedtdeservedit@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoDo you make any money out of copyrights?
minus-squaregodownloadacar@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoMaybe you can download them. Apparently download is theft
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months 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-up3·2 months agoHonestly, I think our world would be a lot blander, and we’d have a whole lot less original content.
minus-squarethewedtdeservedit@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou probably only consume Hollywood prechewed crap and universal soup they call “music”
minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 months 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.
minus-square100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoI don’t see how allowing AI robbery barons to steal copyrighted material would benefit a small fish in the pond of IP
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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-up3·2 months agoYou’re probably right, but saying we should abolish it altogether is insane. There’s a good reason we have these laws.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoReally? Artists getting paid for their work isn’t a good reason?
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou don’t need a copyright for that. Copyright doesn’t pay anyone anything.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI genuinely feel like I’m talking to a wall here.
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s because you don’t understand what copyright legally is.
minus-squaregodownloadacar@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoArTistS gettiNg paId (after universal gets a 40% cuts because you used the snare sample from Taylor swift ofc)
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo what’s the alternative? How else would a professional artist make a living?
minus-squarethewedtdeservedit@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoExactly. Paul Mc Cartney have been trained on copyrighted material and should give his money back to the majors
So abolish copyright law entirely instead of only allowing theft when capitalists do it.
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?
Creation is its own incentive.
And I can buy groceries with thoughts and prayers.
Do you make any money out of copyrights?
Maybe you can download them. Apparently download is theft
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.
You probably only consume Hollywood prechewed crap and universal soup they call “music”
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.
I don’t see how allowing AI robbery barons to steal copyrighted material would benefit a small fish in the pond of IP
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?
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.
ArTistS gettiNg paId (after universal gets a 40% cuts because you used the snare sample from Taylor swift ofc)
So what’s the alternative? How else would a professional artist make a living?
Exactly. Paul Mc Cartney have been trained on copyrighted material and should give his money back to the majors