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Big e🅱️il guberment attacking small innocent ai goop buisness with the vile Copyright Fhforgement pigs
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Sort of? That comes into play more with the ownership of the capital producing it, which is also the case but it's a bit weird to classify "owns a computer and drawing tablet, and uses them productively" in like the same ballpark as "owns many tens of thousands of dollars worth of capital, but still personally works it" because certainly the material pressures on them are different.
Although with how quickly the dialogue turned to "nooo, we must protect the sanctity of property rights!" and from there got turned around to excusing ruinous anti-labor developments from companies that respected property rights, it's not hard to see the same corrupting effect of property ownership intersecting with precarity at play, where the fear of losing what little power and wealth one has makes some people naively accept and support positions that barely benefit (or even harm) them and mostly just protect and serve huge property owners.
im of two minds - on the one hand, property rights are bullshit, but on the other there has to be SOME mechanism to protect the labour of artists no? I agree, by and large a move like this most advances the positions of huge property owners, but on the other hand doing away with copyright protection in its totality under our current system is also going to most impact small scale artists who don't have the wealth to protect their property privately, as compared to those same huge property owners
no matter what, in this situation and under our current system any move is naturally going to benefit the behemoths most, and so on the whole i still think I come down on the side of worker protection via legislation than ditching protections entirely