• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    He’s a doctor of economics, he has a PhD. He’s not exactly a tech bro by any stretch.

    The paper I linked is literally an example of him making something. Unless you somehow erroneously think that research papers aren’t entitled to copyright protection, which, surprise, you’re wrong.

    This isn’t even worth replying to. Get your head out of your ass, man. Plenty of people who make things that are copyrightable promote shortening and amending copyright, including author Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term “enshittification.”

    I’ll quote Mark Hosler of the band Negativland, who made a shitload of art. Negativland was also instrumental in designing early Creative Commons licenses.

    “If you really want to keep control of your art, keep it in your house, don’t share it with anyone, don’t share it with the world.”

    • mrmaplebar@fedia.ioOP
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      44 minutes ago

      These are all nothing more than arguments from authority. There are too many more creative people on the other side of the issue to even bother trying to list them.

      The number of artists who release their creations into CC0 or public domain is not even a drop in the bucket. Good for them, that’s a valid and maybe noble choice to relinquish their copyright–but it is a personal choice, not a law, nor should it be.

      I’ve also written GPL code for years. That’s my choice. I don’t even regret it, despite knowing that it’s being exploited. I’m not going to pretend that entitles me to the code that other people write. I’m not going to try to mandate that laws force everything to be GPL. It also doesn’t mean that my code can be freely scraped and abused by AI companies.

      “If you really want to keep control of your art, keep it in your house, don’t share it with anyone, don’t share it with the world.”

      Because that’s really conducive to living in a capitalist society where the only way to make art is to have money, and the only way to have money is to sell your time, isn’t it?

      Sounds like a pretty shitty deal to me for artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, designers, etc.

      Copyright exists, at least in theory, to prevent us from living in such a world.

      I reject all of that. It’s a false dichotomy to tell artists that they have to either “keep their art in their house” or share it openly with an entire world of rich assholes like Altman, Musk, Zuck, Huang, and others who seek to exploit it for their own gain.

      Personally I think you’re the one who needs to get his head out of his ass and stop worshiping the words of other people as if they were gospel. I don’t dwell on the every word of my favorite musicians. You’re so busy looking up to people that you’re not looking at the world around you as it is, right now, in 2026.

      Look at the rampant, flagrant and shameless exploitation of the creative class by the pompous, rich, powerful, tech-bro elites who feel endless entitlement to everything that they can see. Are we just gonna pretend like this comment isn’t attached to an article about how the richest company in the world purchased a massive trove of copyrighted works to train their AI? Are we gonna pretend like Anthropic, Google, X, and OpenAI haven’t all done the exact same thing?

      Sorry. I can’t subscribe to that.

      I care much more about art and artists than I care about tech or “open culture” on the internet.

      At any rate, today’s my birthday and I’m trying not to waste my time getting all worked up… Your opinion is valid and we probably aren’t going to change each other’s minds on this, so it’s hardly worth continuing this conversation. I don’t dislike you, I just disagree. Have a good one.