- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
“Piracy” isn’t piracy.
It depends. Pirating a specific thing created by someone I think is not good. Ask almost any creator on the Web.
While using motives, aesthetics, characters, universes … is usually something that shouldn’t be subject to IP law, but in fact is, because the law is not written with any creators in mind, it’s intended to create convenient conditions for big businesses.
Piracy is a sea ship attack. “Unauthorized copying” is the term you seek. Copying doesn’t involve attacks, killing, or even robbing, but piracy – does. And no, it isn’t just some terminology casus. Law strictly differentiate killing, raping, robbing and unauthorized copying.
No, I don’t talk stupid shit. It is important.
It’s important propaganda-wise, because it supports a subconscious association between unauthorized copy and and capturing a vessel with its crew. I agree.
What I meant is - unauthorized copying is sometimes too morally very similar to a robbery. There are people, not living very rich, who depend on it happening more rarely. Of course they are being robbed by intermediaries always and by us sometimes, but they still feel it.
Exactly
Never. Robbery involves violence plus moving something of value from the victim to the robber. Your moral compass is broken already by the propaganda you mentioned earlier.
You may think that copying is “bad” in some cases but it never “armed violent values extortion” bad. Never.
I agree. I had a “pleasure” to experience the difference.
That also involved learning that human society consists of apes, real danger is always very close and no police will help you against it, thus right to carry arms is paramount. Preferably allowing you to kill a tank.