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Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ... by PurpleRamen on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:34AM (#35468112)
> IP is not real property

Most Physical property is not real property either. It's all just legal voodoo to protect people's interest. The only real property is the one you can protect on your own with your own hands, everything else is protected by the law.

> If you have an apple and I steal it from you, you can no longer consume that apple.

The apple is usually the result of work, time, resources...

> If you have poem and I make a copy of it, you still can consume (read) the poem.

...and the poem is also the result of work, time, and maybe resources. IP exists, because the creators invests into them and need an return for this investment to make a living, and maybe next time can create something even better.

> The notion of IP is fundamentally incompatible with a free society

The general notion of property and laws is fundamentally incompatible with a free society. But we still need it because Humans are little greedy monsters, and somehow we all need to make a living.

Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ... by oceanplexian on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:00PM (#35472830)
> ..and the poem is also the result of work, time, and maybe resources. IP exists, because the creators invests into them and need an return for this investment to make a living

It’s like a lamplighter being upset that society invented electric light bulbs and therefore stole his “intellectual property”. Poems, like lamplighting, just became a commodity.

You can use the law to protect workers from AI in your country. No different than if you decided to make electricity illegal to protect lamplighters. But good luck with that; we live in a globalized world and the end-result is that your country will become another dead end in the evolutionary tree of civilization when it fails to compete, as has happened thousands of times before.