cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20181716
Law would hold US individuals and firms liable for ripping off a person’s digital likeness.
The bill has also been endorsed by entertainment companies such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, the Independent Film & Television Alliance, William Morris Endeavor, Creative Arts Agency, the Authors Guild, and Vermillio.
I don’t think something being pushed by Sony music, universal music and Disney is going to be good for the consumer.:
DIGITAL REPLICA.-The term “digital replica” means a newly created, computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representation that is readily identifiable as the voice or visual likeness of an individual
There’s a reason why we can’t copyright a voice. I can’t wait for YouTube to delist all my videos because the algorithms decided I sound too much like Ben Affleck.
There’s essentially 3 companies that own all our music. This bill is their attempt at making sure they are the only ones that can offer music generation services.
Likeness shouldn’t be copyrightable, and copy shouldn’t extend past a couple decades.
Now the AI hate train makes sense. Usher in a new era of digital copyrights. I was wondering why media was reusing the same “immigrants are coming for your women children and and tooth brushes” headlines but with AI instead.
This is so that famous people and their heirs can get more free money.
The only thing this does for ordinary people is make them poorer.
I don’t see how this makes ordinary people poorer. Were you making money off of other people’s likeness?
While there’s almost infinite potential human faces, all human faces look somewhat alike, because, they’re human faces. My thesis is basically that if you draw or 3d model a human, chances are that there’s at least one famous person who looks similar enough for lawsuit even if you didn’t know they existed beforehand, making you liable to get sued if you try to monetize your artwork. So, basically, if this were to pass, artists would no longer be allowed to publish/monetize art that depicts humans, even if their art is completely original.
Also, did you know that the NFT marketplace Open Sea used to ignore DMCA takedown requests? They assumed that the artists whose art they hosted would not be able to afford a lawsuit, and since they didn’t get sued into the ground, I assume they were right. It would similar with this. If you’re an average person, you wouldn’t be able to afford to sue if Disney or such uses your appearance without your permission.
And that’s how this would make life worse for the average person.
AFAIK, this is not talking about paintings, sketches, etc. It explicitly says highly realistic. Also, it specifies digitally.
Also, wouldn’t your argument about Disney have been true before this law?
Yes, I think Copyright lasts way to long. In fact, I believe that in an ideal world, copyright wouldn’t exist, because artists should be free to create whatever they please. So if a painter wants to paint, say Han Solo wearing a silly hat, they should be free to do so, but under copyright, they can be sued if they do so. Of course I realize that artists need to sustain themselves, and therefore need to monetize their artwork, hence we have copyright. But even then, it should be limited to, say, 20 years from creation of the work. That way, the artists would be able to monetize their work, even handsomely, but it would stop cultural landlords like Disney from arising.
Isn’t this already covered under our fraud laws? This law just seems to give more power to groups like the RIAA and other large media orgs.
If you can prove someone is committing fraud, you can already sue them. We should merely strengthen those laws, not create a “digital replication right” or whatever. Screw that, we should be limiting copyright, not extending it…
There is the problem that people are so similar to each other that face recognition technology keeps misidentifying people, in some cases putting innocent people in jail for someone else’s crimes.
That would totally suck if we had to prove in court that our randomized face was not intended to look like some famous person.
It would also totally suck if Sony owned my face which means I can only appear in public when Sony allows it.
Don’t worry, the Public Appearance weekly subscription fees will be very reasonable.
What about photography? Can i use this to demand the removal of my likeness from meta google etc
I believe you can if you are talking about deepfakes.
So copyright laws done right for a change?
