I mean, advances are a standard industry practice in trad publishing, and protecting the idea of advances and protecting authors against clawbacks in their contracts is a huge part of what unions like the NWU or SFWA do
Okay but someday when they train a RoboSurgeon to do a surgeon's job by tracking their movements so they can replicate it indefinitely thereafter, everyone with expertise is going to be in the position of "selling IP"
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this is already happening, we already have surgeon robots.
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@cstross has posted about a hypothetical future where automation is widespread but true general AI doesn't exist yet (the machines can't think up new ideas themselves) where "IP" is the *only* form of remuberable human labor -
Which means that what precedents we set for who gets paid for "generating IP" have massive implications for class and equality
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they already do, do you think all that "i sell furry ilustration" are just joker?? i dont want to be rude, but it seams that you are not really neather thinking to much, nor looking creative people opinions...
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