#don't believe everything a rando twitter or tumblr user says

[voidpumpkin]

The Copyright Alliance members also include a lot of trade unions and trade associations and the majority of their work comes from working with 23 thousand individual creators and small businesses, i.e. ‘the little guys’. Not mentioning that the Concept Art Association aren’t actually partnered with the Copyright Alliance, I need to repeat this THEY ARE NOT ACTUALLY PARTNERED WITH THE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE (they are asking for membership, but they are their own body with their own goals who don’t exist according to the goals and whims of the Copyright Alliance and it’s pretty clear why they want membership, doing so will give them the resources to achieve THEIR goal) and that Copyright Art Association is the one organising this GoFundMe NOT the Copyright Alliance in order to achieve THEIR goals NOT the copyright alliances goals (do you really think an organisation funded by Disney or Adobe would need a GoFundMe).

Also fanart is already a copyright infringement and fan merch is already a criminal offence, the only reason artists aren’t being punished is because companies know better. Companies don’t need an expansion, they’ve already won. 

Like have you actually consulted a copyright lawyer about the ai situation, cause what they’re doing is already very cut and dry copyright infringement, like actually consulting a copyright lawyer they made it clear no expansion of copyright law is necessary, it’s just a matter of punishing the ai algorithm creators and ensuring that their algorithms only source from copyright free sources.

Also actually checking out the accounts of other people criticising this GoFundMe and seeing that they’re ai art users/defenders who see the digital artists rallying against ai art as violent and tyrannical is very telling.

hey if you're a fan artist-- especially one who makes income selling fan merch-- you absolutely should not be donating to any movement partnered with the Copyright Alliance (which has supported lawsuits against the Internet Archive, and whose members include the RIAA, Adobe, and Disney, among others) under the guise of "protecting artists from AI technologies." expanding copyright law will never benefit the "little guys"