Is anyone going to do anything? Ever? What's it going to take? You can't put out a song with an uncleared sample without putting yourself in legal jeopardy; meanwhile these people are openly stealing all of human creation and bragging about it! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...

Man, imagine being in-house counsel for freaking Facebook and still thinking raising ethical concerns is going to get you anywhere with your employer.

At the beginning of hip-hop, it was the same Wild West, until a few federal Judges were VERY unimpressed with the samplers’ arguments.

I say let's get Taylor Swift on this. She'll straighten out those bitches.

"One lawyer warned of “ethical” concerns around taking intellectual property from artists but was met with silence, according to the recordings." That says everything you need to know about the people involved.

I wonder if you purchase a university if you would get the rights to all the papers written by the students. Seems like a good way to get a lot of content.

These people don't care about consequences because they've never faced any. I keep thinking about the moment in The Social Network where Zuck had to pay off the Winks, and it was framed as "a speeding ticket."

Fix copyright law. It is the only way out of this mess.

Couldn't someone make an AI law-bot to identify likely plagiarised works and issue DMCA takedown notices?

Governments have let the tech companies become far too big and abusive, and now we are all paying the price. 👎🏻

Yes, we need the Ice Ice Baby lawsuit for AI. And it has to come with big penalties. These folks have already priced in the expected penalties, so it really has to hurt.