i know im just preaching to the choir by posting this on my tumblr blog but bluesky is obsessed with celebrating the music industry taking suno and its ilk to court. this article has been going around there with commentary like this:
but it's just fundamentally incorrect. "the point" of lawsuits like this is not to "destroy the perpetrators", it's to bring them to the bargaining table. the linked article is less than 600 words long but i can guarantee you almost nobody sharing it is reading it, because they wouldn't be able to make claims like this otherwise. here's a pretty important bit of text
wuh oh!!!! doesn't look like they're very destroyed here!!!!! you'll notice how these contracts are about compensating rightsholders, not artists. as will be the case for all of these trojan horse copyright victories you have the temporarily embarrassed vivziepops of the world rooting for.
copyright law is not your friend. copyright law will not save you or anyone else from the continued gutting of the creative sector. copyright law will make sure that the profits that come from this gutting will go to the same titans of industry that the profits from creative labor have already been going to. im begging everyone to stop falling for it over and over again.
at the very least if you're going to share celebratory articles about supposed wins for the anti AI crusade, please actually read to see if the thing you're celebrating has actually, like. happened! come on! this is embarrassing!
