• Stardust@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Dead people may not have rights, but their very living family definitely does. When my dog died, I got upset when my mom kept trying to shove reminders in my face when all I wanted to do was forget for awhile - I can’t imagine how I’d feel about an actual human being.

    How would you like it if you were grieving and someone posted some tasteless shit about your loved one? (assuming you aren’t a sociopath, of course, which may be a bit much considering this is the internet)

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think I’m a sociopath. But then, who does? ;>

      I take your point, and I’m not saying that it wasn’t tasteless or insensitive (although, in fairness, 15 years would be a looooong time for unresolved grief). I’m just saying that it doesn’t seem that any laws were broken, so it isn’t clear why these creators settled.

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        7 months ago

        You’re telling me nobody owns his shows, the material used to train the LLM, whatever trademark is used to allow redistributing his works etc just because he’s dead?

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            7 months ago

            I think that’s up to the courts to decide and perhaps in this case, the company decided a verdict against them would be more damaging than a settlement.

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                7 months ago

                You did. I misread at the time or not at all.

                I guess it might have been a waste of time they’d rather have skipped. Same as this chain of replies might be for you.
                Huh.