Emily VelascoDec 17
These days I find myself constantly weighing my belief that the concept of intellectual property is wrong and anti-human vs. my belief that it's wrong for AI companies to be stealing everyone's work.
Show threadDianeDec 17

@MLE_online

I think of it in terms of an intellectual commons.

Culture is the collective output of everyone participating in a society, and so there needs to be a balance the between the needs of individual artists and society as a whole.

Having a company roll up, install fences and slap prices on everything just because no one can stop them is infuriating.

Show threadEmily VelascoDec 17

@alienghic The problem is soon as you let one person put up a fence, then it becomes a debate over where the fences go and how big they can be, and then we end up with fences locking up almost everything.

No fences. Artists should make a living through working, not hoarding ideas.

Show threadDiane

@MLE_online

More socialism so people who are good at writing keep getting paid works for me.

But until then, the various authors making interesting stories need some framework that gets them enough money to live on.

Exactly how to do that is a political problem

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Show threadEmily VelascoDec 17
@alienghic While i would like to see us shift out of this hypercapitalistic hellscape we're living in, there is a long history of people doing art for the sake of doing art, even when they're not getting paid to do art.
Show threadDianeDec 17

@MLE_online

They do.

Though if they're earning enough to live off of producing art they often make even more art.

Mostly I'd like people like Annalee Newitz or Charlie Stross to be able to produce more books.

For people writing full time it takes about six months to a year for them to write a new novel, kind of depending on what book length is in fashion.