I mean, that's exactly how those deals work.
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The inevitable follow-up of their OpenAI deal. Make a deal with a big GenAI company to get precedent for them licensing your copyrights, then go against everyone else who doesn’t have such a deal.
Triumph@fedia.io 2 months ago
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Further proof that copyrights, like patents, only benefit the rich.
Also, AI-generated material still falls into the monkey selfie legal realm, so they are going to have a helluva time trying to copyright what comes out.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I don’t think they care about monetizing the output, but only about not being sued by the output and making other need to pay 1B to Disney before releasing models