Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ...
by brookst on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:41AM
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You’ve conflated ownership and rent. Once we’re into second- and third-derivatives (like A paying B for the exclusive right to rent property owned by C), it’s all more complex and blurs the line between real property and IP.
But at its heart, the concept of physical property ownership is fundamentally different from IP. The fact that there are hybrids doesn’t change that.
Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ...
by notahacker on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:10AM
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Most of "ownership" is the right to extract rent or deny others from using something. Arguments that the original owner now has the ability to use the thing and always did have no validity as a defence whatsoever against any sort of property crime, because modern ownership is defined by rules artificially enforcing exclusivity claims, not whether the original owner has the use of a thing.
If property actually pertained to owners not being prevented from using things, property law would be a very short set of guidelines entirely approved by the author of Property is Theft.
The fact that modern physical property law is - like IP - almost entirely about creating artificial restrictions on other people's use of stuff and the right to charge for its use obviously changes the concept that actually it's fundamentally different.
Modern world physical property rights - centred around permanent or fixed term tradable exclusive rights of economic exploitation - bear more resemblance to intellectual property rights than the relatively universal notion that people shouldn't have the stuff they're using taken away from them, as do the practical and moral arguments about people deserving fruits of their labour and being more productive when given exclusivity over them.