Funny that. In fact, they should totally have credit, but our copyright laws are so weighted for the property owners (rather than creators) that crediting has to be negotiated in a contract, and Hollywood lawyers are infamous for using loopholes and confusing language to remove credit and payment obligations.
To be fair copyright is fucked up, and you don’t have to create something to own its rights. For example, most of the music you listen to isn’t owned by the artists but the labels, and the artists only get paid if they’re super popular, like Madonna or Metallica or Ye. (Which means if you pirate something as an alternative to paying for it you’re denying profits to the labels, but not failing to support the artists. If you want to support an artist, go to a concert and buy one of their official t-shirts.)
So I don’t think this ruling is going to slow things down. The bare minimum Hollywood studios have to do is pass AI art / copy / whatever through an editor who changes a small portion, and lo! I human made this! Then it’ll go back to the courts, and they’ll see it’s ridiculous. (Mark Isham – I think that’s the guy – has been tinkering with procedural music for eons, so there’s counter precedent.)
Wouldn’t that logic give the camera people and editors the copyrights in film?
Funny that. In fact, they should totally have credit, but our copyright laws are so weighted for the property owners (rather than creators) that crediting has to be negotiated in a contract, and Hollywood lawyers are infamous for using loopholes and confusing language to remove credit and payment obligations.
To be fair copyright is fucked up, and you don’t have to create something to own its rights. For example, most of the music you listen to isn’t owned by the artists but the labels, and the artists only get paid if they’re super popular, like Madonna or Metallica or Ye. (Which means if you pirate something as an alternative to paying for it you’re denying profits to the labels, but not failing to support the artists. If you want to support an artist, go to a concert and buy one of their official t-shirts.)
So I don’t think this ruling is going to slow things down. The bare minimum Hollywood studios have to do is pass AI art / copy / whatever through an editor who changes a small portion, and lo! I human made this! Then it’ll go back to the courts, and they’ll see it’s ridiculous. (Mark Isham – I think that’s the guy – has been tinkering with procedural music for eons, so there’s counter precedent.)