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Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all tripping the Brewers are still the best team in ball and the Blue Jays deserve more respect.

Mariners are WAY overestimated, imo.

Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 5d

2025 World Championship Chances (FanGraphs):

Dodgers --> 23.4%
Mariners --> 17.6%
Yankees --> 16.3%
Phillies --> 13.7%
Blue Jays --> 8.8%
Cubs --> 7.4%
Brewers --> 6.8%
Tigers --> 6.1%

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 14h

This fella wandered into my yard a few days ago. I have named him Kyle. I will befriend him.

He loves to eat the food I put out for my ducks.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 22h

Ironic considering he's wrong

Platforms absolutely can sublicense non-exclusive rights if the creator agrees to the ToS. That’s the whole loophole I have been pointing out... it’s not “stealing,” it’s artists being boxed into giving away permissions by contract before they realize the consequences.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

Creators don't need lawyers. They need to better understand copyright law and enforce their rights. For instance,
Sub-licensing a non-exclusive right is not actually possible. It's an absurdity because Platforms don't own any © to sub-license. It's just copyright infringement.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 22h

ToS agreements are binding contracts. If you clicked “agree,” then sublicensing (as defined in the ToS) is legally permitted.

It’s not automatically infringement... it’s a voluntary license grant.

Which is what my entire post was about.

You are wholly incorrect and should probably not interject.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 22h

You being one of the creators that doesn't understand infringement, clearly lol

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Most artists aren’t going to litigate ToS clauses... they’ll just lose control of distribution the moment they upload something.

My point is that the system shouldn’t force creators to need a lawyer just to keep basic ownership intact for uploading on a high visibility art site

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

True, but the problem isn’t that ToS literally override copyright law... it’s that they discourage enforcement by giving platforms broad sublicensing rights and plausible deniability.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I will do my best to contribute to this cause so we can all be better off as a result

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to apologize to artists :

Artists are being forced onto predatory platforms that are selling their art to scrapers by choice.

I have always assumed that IP rights were as solid as they were for code on GitHub.

I was very wrong and that is really disheartening to learn.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This will give every artist complete, undeniable legal authorship of everything they ever make available.

That way you can easily DMCA anything you see on ANY other website.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Okay turns out I can definitely make a GitHub exclusively for Art and it won't even be that hard.

I can use a ton of the existing git infrastructure.

I'ma have this shit in prototype by the weekend.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

After talking to art friends i respect, there definitely needs to make a universal source of truth for artists to use as a platform.

Websites making your shit available isn't new, even if it is wrong + amplified by AI.

Why does art not have a GitHub or something adjacent to protect their work?

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Cuz I genuinely don't think you can stop theft/copying/scraping in the internet anymore.

Shit is too lawless

Audit logs and commit history/immutable timestamps will at least always have your back in terms of IP claims, at least

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's a cure-all of course... But these web pages are killing the artist they are hosting.

At least this way you have some licensing to stand on if you wanted to pursue it legally

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

That's where the licensing comes into play, contrary to your standard art pages.

github has very robust terms that specifically consider it criminal if you upload something unauthorized.

You instantly gain licensing advantages for IP claims and it's easily traceable.

Art sites give them 0 power

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

And because they don't have predatory third party sharing clauses in their TOs, unlike Instagram, deviantART, Tumblr, Artstation etc.

The only reason AI models get access to your data is because the pages you host your data on make it available to them by choice.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

That's my point.

All of the code that I have that makes money is completely locked down by anyone who doesn't have explicit permission to see it.

Anything I want to be public facing, I can make public facing and I can specify the licensing required to redistribute.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Everything from Boeing is contained on GitHub. You can't see it though.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The websites using predatory ToS to abuse copyright loopholes shouldn't exist, and the platforms artists use to host their art allows it to take place.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The same way it protects my code from being taken

GitHub doesn't have predatory ToS

Artists don't realize that the websites they use specify in their ToS "you own copyright but deviantART still has permission to make your art visible to third parties"

It's the reason for their discomfort, not AI

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism is definitely to blame... America has rewarded theft for too long 😞

We need a complete overhaul on ip/copyright laws in general

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This conversation is giving me some ideas though. I'm going to see what I can cook up as a concept that can maybe help art be less scrapable.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's a much larger, fundamental IP / property theft issue I'm realizing.

Something that has always been wrong with the internet.

AI def amplifies it, though

We need better nuance around IP copyright laws, for sure, but I don't believe that is an AI regulatory ordeal

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

After talking to art friends i respect, there definitely needs to make a universal source of truth for artists to use as a platform.

Websites making your shit available isn't new, even if it is wrong + amplified by AI.

Why does art not have a GitHub or something adjacent to protect their work?

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I can definitely agree with the scale being larger... I just feel like the scale doesn't determine wrongdoing. It's been wrong before AI, so the anger directed at AI is more generalized than it comes off.

If you steal a million dollars versus stealing $50, you are still being charged with theft.

Palmer @carypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

And that's kind of the thing right! It doesn't have to be money.. most AI models don't generate revenue.

People scraping & stealing your art before you just had to hope weren't using it for financial gain but we have a ton of historical data where art has been stolen/published as their own pre-ai