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Universal Blocked My Rudolph Review
In which I discuss my latest video, NBCUniversal's blocking of it, YouTube's copyright policies, and the potential options I can take.
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While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...
...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.
Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.
IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.
And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.
And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.
It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.
So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...
yes, Disney can still use mickey mouse if they lose copyright protection of him.
tw: vulgar language they can still use his image, they can still sell merch, they can still make shorts and use him as much as they want all this means is that everyone else will be able to do whatever the hell you want with mickey with complete legal safety. want to make mickey mouse bongs and buttplugs? go ahead. want to turn mickey mouse into a lovecraftian horror and make erotic fanfiction between him and garfeild the cat? i mean technically you could do that anyways under parody fair use laws, but still you can do that even more so now! Disney is a bunch of greedy corporate slimeballs, they just want to hoard a 100 year old character all to themselves for $$$$$$$. And if anyone here tries to defend Disney essentially ruining the creative copyright laws, i am going to label you a corprotate bootlicking cuck.
Jan of next year mickey will be set freed next year how about we celebrate by making the most bizzare obscene shit with this character. stay frosty my wonderful freaks of the online space.
Negativland’s ethos in a nutshell:
“Philosophically, I mean, that's the way I see it. It's like the whole world is out there. It comes into your house through all this media. It's in your living space. I kind of feel it's mine when it reaches me. In some way, it becomes mine. And that is exactly how culture should work. Culture's supposed to be a shared thing. It's not supposed to be a private thing. It's supposed to be a shared thing.”—Don Joyce
“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”
Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever