• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Copyright for voice and faces actually makes sense. Copyright for creative works as it exists is dumb as fuck.

    Copyright is nothing more than a system for creating artificial scarcity and monopolies where there is no inherent need for it. Protecting our identities is a genuinely valuable use of that system, stopping artists from sampling and remixing is not.

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    11 days ago

    Applies for a copyright patent for your face.

    Gets it, now proceeds to sue you for violating my patent.

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      11 days ago

      The core of the idea is that you own the copyright to your own face.

      I don’t think anyone is proposing any kind of system that would allow you to hold the copyright of anyone else’s face.

      Also, copyright != patent.

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          11 days ago

          I know it was meant as a joke, but unfortunately, yes, its kind of based on false premises.

          Very, very broadly speaking:

          A patent typically pertains to some kind of invention, some kind of unique and novel design of a machine or process.

          A copyright typically pertains to some kind of created work, like a song, book, visual artwork.

          A trademark typically pertains to a brand name, marketing slogan.

          All 3 of these together comprise the category of Intellectual Property, IP Law.

          https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/difference-copyright-patent-trademark/

          The actual law on all this stuff is actually extremely esoteric and complicated… and it is probably also worth noting that I am describing and more well versed in US IP law, not that of the Netherlands, which may be substantially different … I am not Dutch, I don’t know much specifically on that, but I did study US IP law back during getting my Poli Sci and Econ degrees.

          Again, the entire subject is… exceptionally tedious and complicated lol, I totally do not blame you for not knowing the details, the vast majority of people don’t, lol.