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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · Mar 13

Exceptionally joyful this week. US Copyright Office confirming my registration is entirely valid & I am indeed a joint author of Iron Sky along with those others listed has been a vindication for me to continue to stand up for the rights of myself & others in the face of disparagement & humiliation.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · May 26

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

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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.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

ToS are not valid if they try to expropriate exclusive rights. ToS are contract law not copyright law.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

Copyright is actually part of human rights laws. It's basic common decency to respect property rights. Corporate ownership of copyright is restricted in most of the world. In the EU employees maintain © ownership even in employment relationships.
fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charte...

Article 17 - Right to property

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 2d

Iron Sky 3D artists cannot be deprived of their intellectual property.
fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charte...

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 3d

There were numerous terms as AIgen users were looking for something to call themselves like "prompt engineer" or "synthographer". But as AIgen took off, there were media reports about how it was being used for deep fakes etc. "wankographer" was a term I coined a few years back. Clanker works too.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 3d

AI firms are NOT right about copyright. They are taking ordinary people's works for free to enrich themselves with which is genuinely the worst kind of Mega corporation behavior and completely indefensible. So, again, be serious.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 4d

"pro-copyright arguments play right into mega-corporation's hands"

AI firms are mega-corporations. Be serious.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 4d

I think you are completely ignorant of the actual case at issue and you are unlikely to have even read it properly.

A robot scanning a book and saving a copy of that book to it's hard drive is NOT fair use and you are just a moron. Seriously. You are a moron. Sci fi robots are human actors.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 5d

To be clear, a human reads, a robot "scans and makes a copy saved to a hard disc".

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5d

OpenAI claims companies must opt-out of having their copyrighted characters & content appear in Sora

Legal experts say studios have grounds to sue:

“They’re setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you don’t, it’s your fault. That’s not the way the law works"

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Alsup is wrong though because he equates a "robot reading a book" with a child reading a book. A robot cannot actually gain knowledge of what it is reading and "has no human rights" such as "free speech" which is what "fair use" is derived from.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 6d

There's no such thing as maximalist copyright arguments because fair practice exists as and exception and all works become public domain.
Trademarks don't expire if they are being used.
The copyright owners argument is "get a license". That's all.