• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I think the advent of AI really highlights that we are finally on a post artificial scarcity trajectory. Corporations and the government have almost completely stopped caring about IP enforcement in the quest for AI.

    The system you describe sounds somewhat reasonable. I was just pointing out it never existed in the first place. It is a compelling fantasy put forth by IP Maximalist to justify their rent seeking behavior. Making that fantasy a reality is probably possible in a non-fascist society.

    I am a bit confused by the last part where without an IP system corporations would be allowed to abuse artists. That is literally what they do everyday with the current laws with AI being their ultimate fuck you to artists. I suppose part of the issue is these laws have been exclusively written by corporations to benefit corporations.

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      3 days ago

      Yep. It’d be a massive improvement to see artists getting an iota of the deference the courts show to large corporations.

      To make the last part clearer, the state we have now effectively is the ‘no IP’ state, but as created by uneven enforcement. Per the letter of the law, companies are supposed to pay for the IP they use, including, somehow, AI derivatives. Things are bad enough but dumping IP entirely would mean there wasn’t even those ostensible protections. It’d be some Libertarian’s fantasy I don’t want to be anywhere near.