The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

this raises an interesting point; would emulating an uploaded human who remembers copyrighted works at a low resolution be materially different than someone, perhaps, singing a copyrighted song rather well? is the difference that they're "reproducing the work for profit"?https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1326982540427608064 …

if thats the case, would there be a market for selective memory-scrubbing to be done for emulated humans? would it be acceptable to scan and store memories of copyrighted works, and only forbidden to play them back emulating the mind? what if they never access those memories?

I'm of the position that anyone advocating or assisting in the mutilation of a conscious being can get fucked to death, personally. Especially over something that's already as unjustifiable as intellectual property rights.

that raises more questions: what if this is consensual, and the scanned person knew of these terms beforehand and agreed to them? what if they died horribly, and this expensive technology, which would have been inaccessible to the spouse, is subsidized by Disney with this catch?

Seems incredibly and intractably coercive and shouldn't happen imho

but since we're already in a world where this will likely happen, how should we think about these moral quandaries? IP law reform would be great, but if it doesn't happen we still gotta come up with something