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N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old, sweary, and stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens #CatsOfMastodon.

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ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.

If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!

If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!

And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.

Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.

@music @technology @music

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @lispi314 @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon No argument here.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon That's plausible.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Agreed. My 2 cents is that it's a reasonable compromise, but I get that people may disagree.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Your mileage may vary, but in my experience, particularly online, when people can get a copy of a particular work they want without paying the creator, that's what they do, if only because it's one less step.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Oh, I quite agree. Coble's hometown paper editorialized against the copyright changes Disney bought through him at the time, but nobody else listened. Coble certainly didn't.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Having been a freelancer and independent contractor off and on for 45 years, I've looked into most of them, and in most cases, for them to "work" -- by which I mean provide a living -- the artist must still be protected by copyright law; otherwise, others could duplicate and sell his/her work as their own and receive money that otherwise would have gone to the creator.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Oh, I know. I did some reading on Coble and Disney in the late 1990s, and I was stunned to learn about how much stuff they were squatting on. But money talks loudly enough to drown out all other voices.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Your model for writing code implies that all code writers must be someone else's employee. But what if they want to be independent? How do those folks get paid?

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Also, the guy in the video says we should either ban copyright or severely shorten its length. Those are two VERY different things. I have to wonder whether severely shortening its length and streamlining the process for obtaining rights wouldn't solve most of the problems currently surrounding U.S. copyright while still allowing creative people a chance to make money.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon OK, I'll take a look.

panamared27401,
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@kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon My late congresscritter, Howard Coble, was responsible for that. A product of north-central North Carolina, he was nicknamed "The Congressman from Disney" in the district (and in Washington) because of all the water he carried for that corporation on IP matters.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon For reasons on which I'm not immediately clear, there seems to be a lot more of an appetite for that sharing approach in the coding community than in the musician community.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon Even with copyright law, plagiarism happens all the time, albeit usually on the personal level rather than the industrial level. Imagine how bad, and how industrialized, it would get if we had no copyright law.

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon OK. So let's say there were no such thing as copyright law. How, then, would artists, writers, musicians, etc., make a living?

panamared27401,
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@lispi314 @chucker @kkarhan @ajsadauskas @technology @music @music @senficon I think a lot of musicians (cf. R.E.M.) with sizable back catalogs to which they own the rights would disagree with you, and honestly, I don't know what the right answer is.

That said, if you would, please explain why you mean by "copyright also inherently assumes you have a right to control the minds of others." I'm not following.

stopgopfox, to politics

Chris Licht is a moron. The CNN CEO believed he could court the MAGA crowd without losing the left. Instead, the network now finds itself hemorrhaging viewers and in the ratings basement behind Newsmax. Fire him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2023/05/15/cnn-drops-to-fourth-place-in-prime-time-friday-night-behind-newsmax

panamared27401,
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@stopgopfox CNN's largest shareholder doesn't give a shit about CNN's ratings. What he cares about is getting Trump or another fascist back into the White House because THAT is how he makes real money. CNN's ad revenue is a drop in the bucket in comparison.

stux, to random
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Guess I should just remove the 'hit reaction' animations from the monsters cause this just seems sooo dumb :flan_laugh:

Don't worry, it's not real and made in Unreal!

Shooting mega monsters gives a hit reaction bug

panamared27401,
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@stux No monsters were harmed in the making of this gif.

black_intellect, to random
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Taxpayers will wind up paying $273 million in Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling case

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/taxpayers-will-wind-up-paying-273-million-in-joe-arpaios-racial-profiling-case

panamared27401,
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@black_intellect Taxpayers shouldn't be paying that. The police pension fund should be.

panamared27401, to random
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I want to live, so I'm coming with you.


panamared27401, to random
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Here's a box of chocolates. It's got a little diagram in the top to tell you which one's which.


panamared27401, to random
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I found your sled!


panamared27401, to random
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Here's your two dollars.


panamared27401, to random
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Tell you what: You can take the gun AND the cannoli.


panamared27401, to random
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It's not that big a cave. I bet we find our way out.


panamared27401, to random
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That cell wall's only about 3 feet thick. You should be through there in no time!


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