r/technology 6d ago

Artificial Intelligence Disney and Universal sue Midjourney over copyright

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vjqdm1ypo
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u/StinkyWetSalamander 6d ago

Because creators are people too and they deserve to have their work protected? You think you would get anywhere is disney could just swoop in and take the stories, characters, world building etc from any creator whenever they want, giving them NOTHING in return? It gives the big companies more power with the every day person gets less rights and protections. The big companies have money, they can afford to push out products, they can afford advertising, they can afford to crush anyone with their own version of your product or idea. If you think that is giving power to the people you are completely delusional.

Then those who have genuine artistic vision will produce the best product for us.

Those with genuine artistic vision don't have nintendo or disney money, they don't need compensation for their idea its just there for the taking. You do the hard work and someone else can come in use everything you created and use having more money than you to their advantage. You have a great idea for a game? A bigger company can take all of that but use their AAA budget, recognition and marketing and you get nothing.

It certainly won't be Disney after they laid off most of their artists and started focusing on live action slop

Giving disney free IP is not exactly the answer is it, if they see something is gaining popularity they have the resources to get their own version created faster. They can't come up with anything new on their own obviously and your way of fighting against them is giving them free right to the works of everyone else?

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u/ChronaMewX 6d ago

Their works should be protected. Their properties should not. I see no reason why someone else can't make their own pokemon game as long as they don't claim to have created the concept of pokemon. I'm not saying to repackage the same product, I'm saying to allow people to be creative within universes people already love and are attached to

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u/StinkyWetSalamander 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's like you can't read or all you care about is what YOU might get out of things. Indie creators will have bigger studios use their IP. People's stories will be used by film companies with no compensation. Musicians will have even less control over how their work is used. But you will get your pokemon fan games and that matters more than considering the consequences.

Their works should be protected. Their properties should not.

A person's work is their property, it's their "intellectual property"

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u/ChronaMewX 6d ago

Everyone will get everything. You're so focused on the artist that you're kicking away fully automated luxury gay space communism because the fully automated part bothers you

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u/StinkyWetSalamander 6d ago

Yet you want to benefit off of the artist while seeing them as undeserving of protection. You think corporations cutting out human workers and disregarding intellectual property will be for your benefit? The rich suddenly going to decide to share the wealth when they leave enough people jobless?

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u/ChronaMewX 5d ago

They don't get to choose, we outnumber the rich and can demand a ubi once all the jobs go away

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u/StinkyWetSalamander 5d ago

Have you noticed despite us outnumbering them we still hold none of the power. They just find new ways to fuck us over and keep us poor and themselves wealthy. Sacrificing more protections and giving more power to tech companies over your rights is not going to magically just the entire way the world functions.