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Now I want a movie with french artists trying to get their money off a collection agency bureaucrat that involves a banger car chase and train shootout.
What's sickening is that in some sense, this could be a way to solve a lot of legal hassles in one fell swoop. They get a predictable rate card, and then there's a clearly defined legal window for generative-AI products, saving decades of fights in the courts.
But it won't ever be that. The rights industry will never be satisfied, and it will just be the foot in the door to ever higher fees and restrictions. This is exactly the same fiasco as blank-media levies: they never fully evolved into a full "you paid once" sanction for free copying, so all it did was become a tax for a specific private beneficiary.