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Also enjoyed this article: https://avc.xyz/minting-is-the-native-business-model-for-web3-and-maybe-ai-too Been talking about IP with creator friends: the "open IP paradigm" that's often talked about in these articles gets mixed reactions - many want options for granular licensing (esp those not onchain). But in saying that, many do feel like the 'remixing'/reuse of content across the web + volume of content is creating a cultural shift where it's expected to have IP infringed, and copyright isn't as enforceable. So we're sort of moving towards that paradigm anyway? Also thinking about how licences in metadata (e.g. a16z's CBE licences) or experiments with 'non-public' onchain content (see e.g. recent zk nft experiments) will come into play in situations where people are less keen on having their content be training data, or don't want content to be public for other reasons.
I think you're right - we are moving towards that paradigm anyway. It's similar to the Napster/Torrent era of the music industry, when copyrights were infringed, and the industry couldn't stop the global wave. Then, Steve Jobs embraced the digital change, making buying music on iTunes easy. I think we might see a similar story here. Creators like Grimes or 3LAU, who try to prepare themselves for the shift by letting people create AI music with their models, might be interesting people to follow. Also, all bloggers reading that are like: "You guys are getting paid?"
Yeah, I get that observation Davo! I wrote about this topic too. Here‘s an older, and, sadly, annoyingly-written post on the topic: https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2021-08-22/intellectual-property-will-become-irrelevant.html Anyways, my point in it is that the more digital IP management tools come online, the less someone will have to rely on getting Copyright executed in courts. E.g. if you design 150 PFPs and sell them as NFTs and make a lot of money, then by being able to capture that value from the get-go, it‘s less likely you‘ll have to invoke a Copyright later on. I also show this by talking about Youtube‘s claims system. I think this dimension will be extended more and more, to a point when we‘ll only have to think of copyright in the absolute edge cases.
Thanks for sharing both - loving the kiwi comment feature :) Enjoyed your essay Tim, and especially like how you captured the shift of a lot of content creation being 'performance' vs 'object'. I feel like the nature and value of content changes based on context too, which complicates value calcs. E.g. a commodity if in an algo feed or large training data, but more valuable if resurfaced in certain ways. Ease of distributing/creating/remixing all of this in different ways complicates how we value things, but I think you’re right in that just as your NFT example is one way of solving for capturing value, we’ll probably see multiple tools and approaches emerge, and mapping actions onto blockchain functions or creating monolithic standards is a bit of a trap.