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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Hollywood Celebrities Ask Trump for Help Against AI
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:22:11 -0400
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On 3/21/2025 7:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2025 at 3:07:07 PM PDT, "Pluted Pup" <plutedpup@outlook.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:02:51 -0700, BTR1701 wrote:
>>
>>>   Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to
>>> Not
>>>   Let AI Companies Exploit Copyrighted Works
>>>
>>>   https://www.yahoo.com/news/ben-stiller-mark-ruffalo-more-215500154.html
>>
>> This statement makes sense to me:
>>
>> "It is clear that Google (valued at $2Tn) and OpenAI (valued at
>> over $157Bn) are arguing for a special government exemption so
>> they can freely exploit America´s creative and knowledge
>> industries, despite their substantial revenues and available
>> funds. There is no reason to weaken or eliminate the copyright
>> protections that have helped America flourish. Not when AI
>> companies can use our copyrighted material by simply doing what
>> the law requires: negotiating appropriate licenses with copyright
>> holders - just as every other industry does. Access to America´s
>> creative catalog of films, writing, video content, and music is
>> not a matter of national security. They do not require a
>> government-mandated exemption from existing U.S. copyright law."
>>
>> Granting exemptions to Google to violate copyright
>> laws is a subsidy of Google by the taxpayers, a vast
>> power to be used exclusively by the Google corporations.
>> There is already illegally subsidized monopolization by Google,
>> and this furthers it, effectively prohibiting competition
>> to Google.
>>
>> I'm reminded of Google's illegal dealings in federal court
>> in partnership with the American Association Of Publishers,
>> feigning as adversaries, tried to get the judge to decree a
>> global monopoly on "orphan" works to Google. Judge Ito
>> denied it, a hero to orphans, a disappointment to those
>> who see that monopolization is inevitable and therefore
>> desirable. Where's the actual move to re-publish
>> orphan works, because that cause is not served by decreeing
>> Google to be the world's exclusive "royal" publisher.
>>
>> Or the new British "law" that says that hate speech
>> is illegal but gives exemptions to specific news
>> organizations, where a reader parrots or rebuts an
>> approved privately owned news source and it's technically
>> an imprisonable offense to do so. Other, "non-royal"
>> news sources are not permitted to compete.
> 
> All that's great but it doesn't address the rank hypocrisy of all these
> Hollywood elitists spending the better part of a decade calling a guy "worse
> than Hitler", then expecting his help when it comes to protecting their
> livelihoods.

They may not have understood the "help" to depend on personal affinity.