Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation

Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by dmonitor on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:56PM (#35471146)

you say this as if youtube poops haven’t existed for decades. the response from IP holders has always been to make an example out of the ones that get too popular so as to scare the rest into submission. When that doesn’t work, distribution platforms will change to suit the needs of the IP holders, or IP holders will crucify the distributors in court. And if all else fails, they will lobby the government to change laws in order to protect their assets.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by echelon on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:36PM (#35471696)

Given the trajectory we're on, the same effort it took to create "Youtube Poops" will be able to produce quality music, visual effects, character arcs, and storytelling. And I'm sure companies will be highly incentivized to filtering this so the top content rises.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by dmonitor on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:17PM (#35473795)

If they think it competes with their usage of the characters, they’ll nuke it from orbit. Whether that involves threatening the creators, the distributors, or the government.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by hunkyDori on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:32PM (#35472442)

You’re reciting contemporary history but the actual people who own those assets are dying.

100 years ago certain violations of religious norms were unconscionable.

I’m not so sure the next generation is inclined to babysit the sensibilities of those currently churning out of reality.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by echelon on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:48PM (#35473447)

> I’m not so sure the next generation is inclined to babysit the sensibilities of those currently churning out of reality.

I love this quote so much. Thank you.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by dmonitor on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:54PM (#35473510)

people aren’t protecting their copyright for religious or moral reasons. they’re doing it for a shitton of money. it’ll probably go away around the same time as land ownership.

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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by hunkyDori on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:12PM (#35475247)

Next generation won’t have the same direct benefit from those old ideas and is watching their buying power be deflated right how to insure them; old protectionism memes hold little value right now. If some app can just generate Mario quality gameplay that looks like anything, why pay Nintendo?

Generational churn and social media have gotten in the way of the “remember American history and pride.”

They quit teaching George Washington and the cherry tree nonsense in grade schools a while ago. A whole bunch of kids are growing up outside the filter bubble of 20+ years ago, and they’re voting age now, only going to become a bigger share of the voting bloc. They’ll be defining future social value stores and have no love for the old Empire.

They’re not post war shellshocked and Cold War paranoids that huffed leaded gas before its ban. A very different social mindset is aging into political power.

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