So, just out of curiosity, how is this any different than the corporations stealing literally everything to train ai?
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So they're suing for roughly 10% of the world's GDP if the site I linked is to be believed. That's gotta be a joke, right?
No, and it isn't the first time the industry did this, by far: https://www.businessinsider.com/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-trillions-2012-5
Yeah I heard about that one. Like, what's the point of these lawsuits? Making it look scary? Cause to me it looks like they don't have a clue what they're asking for
There are statutory damages of $750 to $30,000 per work assigned to copyright infringement. Under certain circumstances, the courts may lower this amount to $200 per work, or increase it to $150,000.
Plaintiffs multiplied the number of works Anna's Archive has claimed to have acquired times $150,000 to come up with their number.
Spotify started as a place you could upload your "own" ripped music to, and then listen to it from anywhere.
Fuck them for moving away from that model, and fuck them for pulling this shit, and fuck them for giving Rogan however much they gave him to spout his bullshit
Same with Google Play Music. But they put the kibosh on that and merged it with YouTube so that today your high quality audio files show up next to poor quality slop videos uploaded by randoms.
Might as well be "a million bajillion dollars!!!!"
But what if it was Anna's archive dot ai?
Music licensing is the most fucked up greediest maneuvering I have ever witnessed, and I've bought used cars. I remember buying a box set of "Bonanza" TV series and, when I started to watch, the iconic "Bonanza" theme was replaced by some surf-guitar sounding intro. Fuck music licensing! Go Napster! Simple rule, once the person who wrote the song/piece dies then BOOM!...public domain. What's next? Let's sue all of the travelling bands who play cover tunes.
The Drew Carey show isn't easily streamed in full because of music licensing. It's a bummer for sure.
You dont need a mechanical license to play a cover song live but the venues should be paying the PROs performing rights organizations or they can get sued. Small establishments get sued all the time by companies like ASCAP and BMI because of this.
The record labels? Sure. Spotify never owned the music, I don't see how they have standing.
Because they charged access fees, and their systems were attacked.
Anna's archive should have trained an AI model with it instead...
"all the world's commercial recordings" ??? Fuck off. There is no way that they have all of the out of print recordings from every label on Earth.
They almost do! It was posted some weeks ago.
They can't possibly have all the out of print things. Record companies hold that stuff back to force new music sales. And some of the recordings get re-released under "Special Markets" editions. But there is a vast chunk of out of print that never comes back to the public.
Hey! You stole my other peoples art and allowed people to make copies! We're so damaged that we are making record profits for the shareholders!
So, those 4 companies argue that without Anna's archive they would be the to 4 largest companies in the world?
They multiplied the "statutory damages" per work times the number of works alleged to have been infringed. The statutory maximum is $150,000 per work.

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