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We kinda knew this was going to happen. New Hollywood really wants to be classic Hollywood, where the studios own the lives of the actors and control every aspect. But I expected them to start by cyber-thesbianning Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.
But yeah, the studios are going through a creativity crisis, now decades into a best practices run of avoiding new ideas for less risky sequels and high concept films, preferring spectacle over introspection and character study.
The copyright maximalism and Hollywood accounting isn’t really about piracy or greed so much as desperation to keep old promises of exponential dividend growth.
Every bubble eventually pops, and the longer they try to keep it intact, the more disastrous the outcome.
In the meantime, I look forward to when small indie directors can star Bogart and Harlow in their concept film.
The moment I saw the hologram of 2pac singing at coachella I knew that this was inevitable.
Oh boy, the identity and copyright laws will be chaotic as ai gets more and more advanced. I’m all in for abolishing copyrights but I have no idea what to think about your identity being duplicated/recreated. When is something your identity and when it stops being it? It will be obvious with 1:1 copies of popular people/actors but what about situations where copies are tinkered with to resemble someone less or when you do a mix of multiple people to create one person? What about people that are not known by everyone? What if the virtual person resembles someone by accident?
What makes copyright bad but identity protection good? Copyright prohibits the unauthorized duplication of your actual labor. To my mind that’s more egregious than simply copying the shape of your face.
I’d be a lot less pissed off if someone copied my face than if they copied something that actually took me effort to produce.
Wasn’t my point. It’s more about WHAT someone does with your “identity” in public media. In the long term I can see it being abolished too but in the short term there will be a lot of drama about it for sure.
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Wasn’t my point.
Yeah, it seems like it was my point in my original comment, my bad.
Seriously fuck the executive who thought this up. Literally just taking money away from folks because they can - shit like this leads to drastic change.