Which one should bother me more: some guy posting salacious movie clips on a Danish-language subreddit, or the declared intent of “rightsholders” and US regulators to criminalize them?
The pitch is that “moral rights” will be used to protect artists’ “integrity” and intent (by preventing anyone from posting clips or samples of the artwork out of contect) and mess with AI deepfakes, “nudifiers,” and other similar creepiness.
Wherever this law takes root, it will inevitably be used to suppress criticism of those works.
And memes.
And spoilers.
And whatever else that clever or persistent system-abusers can come up with.
Just like the most noticeable effect of that other Euro legal export, the “right to be forgotten,” was the ability of malefactors to retroactively cover up crimes that made the news (and, in one case, to cover up the coverup, and to cover up the coverup of the coverup, et cetera ad absurdum).
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