Re:AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says
by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:23PM
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But they don't like having people treat their work like crap.
I know of what I speak. BTDT, got the T-shirt. One of the issues with noncreatives, is they have this illusion that creatives don't work hard, or don't "earn" their money (which can sometimes, be a great deal).
I run into that attitude on a regular. I'm routinely asked to do $20,000 worth of work for free, "because it's fun for me."
I suspect that a lot of us have dealt with that. Development of software and hardware is a creative (and valuable) effort, but people sometimes think we don't work hard at it, because our fingernails aren't cracked.
In my career, I've worked with some of the top people in the design field (and my company paid them a lot of money). They were worth every nickel.
One of the problems with being good at something, is that we make it look easy, so people think it will be easy.
I posted this a while back:
There's the old story I've heard about the retired engineer (apocryphal, I'm sure):
This engineer worked for a corporation for 40 years, and retired.
A few months into his retirement, his old company frantically calls him, begging him to come in, and help fix an issue with the system he worked on. Apparently, the new team had managed to hose it, and couldn't figure out how to fix it.
He comes in, sits down at a terminal, looks at it for five minutes, and says "Here's the issue. If you do this, it should be fixed..."
He then presents an invoice for $10,000.
The beancounters go "There's no way we can pay $10,000 for five minutes work! Itemize it!"
He sits down, scribbles a bit, and presents an invoice that says:
Time to fix bug: Five minutes. $20
Six years of college, and forty years of experience, so I can fix a bug in five minutes: $9,980
Lots of people, on this very forum, would love creatives to do their work for free, so they can grab that work, and use it for stuff they will sell.
There's an unfortunate culture of "Everyone [but me] should do work for free, and publish it on the Internet, so I can use it, and make money [because my own work will never be free]."
I know of what I speak. BTDT, got the T-shirt. One of the issues with noncreatives, is they have this illusion that creatives don't work hard, or don't "earn" their money (which can sometimes, be a great deal).
I run into that attitude on a regular. I'm routinely asked to do $20,000 worth of work for free, "because it's fun for me."
I suspect that a lot of us have dealt with that. Development of software and hardware is a creative (and valuable) effort, but people sometimes think we don't work hard at it, because our fingernails aren't cracked.
In my career, I've worked with some of the top people in the design field (and my company paid them a lot of money). They were worth every nickel.
One of the problems with being good at something, is that we make it look easy, so people think it will be easy.
I posted this a while back:
There's the old story I've heard about the retired engineer (apocryphal, I'm sure):
This engineer worked for a corporation for 40 years, and retired.
A few months into his retirement, his old company frantically calls him, begging him to come in, and help fix an issue with the system he worked on. Apparently, the new team had managed to hose it, and couldn't figure out how to fix it.
He comes in, sits down at a terminal, looks at it for five minutes, and says "Here's the issue. If you do this, it should be fixed..." He then presents an invoice for $10,000.
The beancounters go "There's no way we can pay $10,000 for five minutes work! Itemize it!"
He sits down, scribbles a bit, and presents an invoice that says:
Lots of people, on this very forum, would love creatives to do their work for free, so they can grab that work, and use it for stuff they will sell.There's an unfortunate culture of "Everyone [but me] should do work for free, and publish it on the Internet, so I can use it, and make money [because my own work will never be free]."