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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should digital artists not count because they are computer assisted, don't require as much skill and technique as "traditional" artists and use tools that are based on the work of others like, say, brush makers?

My brother in Christ, they didn't even allude to this, this is an entirely new thought.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah no shit sherlok. I'm applying their flawed logic to other situations, where the conclusion is even more dumb so he can see that the logic doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But leaping from 'copyright is made-up' to 'so artists should starve?' is totally reasonable discourse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Explain what you think will happen if artists who depend on their art to make a living lose copyright protection.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Commissions, patronage, subscriptions, everything else rando digital artists do when any idiot can post a JPG everywhere and DMCA takedowns accomplish roughly dick.

Meanwhile - you wanna talk about people who've been fucked over by corporations that decide their original artwork is too close to something a dead guy made?

Or look into whether professional artists were having a good time, before all this? Intellectual property laws have funded and then effectively destroyed countless years of effort by artists who aren't even allowed to talk about it due to NDAs. CGI firms keep losing everything and going under while the movies they worked on make billions. The status quo is not all sunshine and rainbows. Pretending the choice is money versus nothing is deeply dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Just internet beg” oh okay. Shows exactly how much you value the people making the art you want to feed into the instant gratification machine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

'How money?' Existing lucrative business ventures by quite a lot of artists. 'So beg!' Yeah you got me, how intellectually sincere, gold sticker, you can leave.