Elton John brands government 'absolute losers' over AI copyright plans
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The musician accuses the government of robbing young artists over its copyright law plans.
  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
    97·
    2 days ago

    To a certain degree, copyright holder decries possible limitations on copyright as foul, that’s not really news, is it?

    Elton John garnered success in a time when you could earn a pretty penny by selling records. As a result, he has a lot of well paying dogs in this fight. It’s nice that he wants to protect the younglings. I just wonder if he knows that that ship has already sailed for them. Most contemporary artists don’t earn shit on streams, selling records is not sustainable income, and you can only make money on concerts really. Branding is almost more important than content. What is he looking to protect then for the younger artists? An industry in decline anyway?

    I think we may have to come to terms with the possibility that everything that can be made available as training data will be used as training data. A shit Murphy’s Law if you will. Facebook torrenting their training data is just the first sign of it. In the end, it will be indistinguishable and unremovable. This sort of thinking may be going alongside the incessant lobbying of tech bros at Westminster.

    What we need is to extract money from the companies who do this and spread it among artists. A percentage of their revenues from two years sgo and all fundrausing goes into a fund. Musicians, artists, film makers, writers etc. join the fund and get a cut. Money is the only thing that would make these companies think twice. Right now the price for running roughshod over everything including the law is relatively cheap for them. We have to raise the price. That would be more productive than calling politicians idiots in my opinion.

    • faceula@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 days ago

      Some good points to be considered but I don’t feel the industry is in decline at all. He’s doing something to try and help the youth, it’s better than nothing.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Please, leave the multibillion AI company alone!

      or,

      Sire, you bouther the multai-billiyon pound Ehy-eye eendustree with your coopyraight nonsense, innit? have you consider’d, that the multai-milliyonaire are-tist would also suffer besides the pooor ones, and evenchually all entertainment meydia will be dogshite Ehy-eye jenerated slop?