After people reacted so positively to the banner I made I had the idea to do the same with c/anarchism. But what to draw? Well I took the existing image and traced over it, adding some more character.
License (as always): CC-0, no rights reserved. Especially since it’s traced over a generated image.
Still not theft. Merely copyright infringement at best.
Oh, “merely.” I’m sure all the artists who weren’t given the opportunity to opt out and are currently having their work reproduced at scale feel so much better about that legal distinction.
You realize we also host [email protected] here, right?
Yep, I’m aware. And just like anarchy, I don’t agree that piracy should be applied without exception. Stealing from the common person ≠ stealing from billionaires or mega corporations.
I know there are some pirates who do not make such exceptions, but I think they’re wrong, and their behavior is indistinguishable from corporations’.
Stealing from artists is stealing from the poor class, whether that’s intentional copyright infringement (especially since AI companies know artists rarely have the money to fight back) or total theft. And the wealthy are more than happy to see us do their dirty work by hurting each other.
Again, copying isn’t stealing.
If it’s to reproduce it at scale, yes it is.
You can’t just redefine words to fit your sensibilities
Neither can you. Copying someone’s copywritten work is IP theft; in actuality, it’s not just stealing the work but the artistic style of artists, which is far worse.
And since you seem intent on hanging your argument on copying, here’s evidence that copyright infringement is a form of IP Theft:
Continuing to act like GenAI, specifically its current iteration and regarding who controls it, isn’t a theft and plagiarism machine is just pro-billionaire claptrap. That’s not an anarchist stance, that’s being distracted by an oligarch’s shiny, dangling keys.
It’s just copyright infringement. “ip theft” isn’t a thing. Ergo It’s not stealing, it’s violating copyrights which is a shit law nobody should respect.
Says who?
Every law on the subject deals with “infringement”, not “theft”.
Copyright is a state-mandated monopoly on reproducing a specific creative work. Violating the state’s rules about that monopoly is not “theft”.
To actually have IP theft, you’d have to use some nefarious means to acquire ownership of the IP, taking it away from the artist.
If your friend made an artwork, but before they published it, you took it to the copyright office and had the copyright registered in your name … now that would be IP “theft”. You actually stole the IP from someone and deprived them of that IP by doing so.