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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by MattPalmer1086 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:29AM (#35637318)
Lengthy copyright may be uncompetitive, but the absence of it would also be surely? If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

Can you explain your reasoning?

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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by Hamuko on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:45AM (#35637686)
>If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

Isn't that the entire basis of OpenAI and GPT?

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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by danielheath on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:56AM (#35637744)
> If I create something and an already large business can just take it and use it without any recompense, doesn't that merely entrench their market position?

There's already numerous posts from artists claiming their work was copied verbatim (or near-verbatim) by major corps. Fighting it in court will take years and cost a fortune they don't have.

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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by MattPalmer1086 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:23AM (#35638162)
That may be, but is the solution to get rid of what little protection they legally have?
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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by danielheath on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:16PM (#35649436)
If it's not protecting them, and it's causing other harms?
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Re:Show HN: Create Comics Using Stable Diffusion by MattPalmer1086 on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:40AM (#35650842)
You would have to demonstrate that the harms far outweigh the goods for all works protected by copyright, not just the poor artists you mention.

Law is never perfect. I agree if it does more harm than good for most then it should be replaced.

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