Rape is fundamentally about power, control and the violation of consent.
The casual dismissal of artists' fundamental rights to control their work and how they are used is a part of a larger cultural problem, where might would rule over law, power would rule over justice, lies over truth.
That may seem a charged argument, and it is, because it hits right and it is particularly uncomfortable to acknowledge.
The same tech leaders that push for this move over IP law are the tech leaders that fund(ed) the current dismantling of US democracy and that have chosen their political team because it aligns precisely (up to the man that got the presidential seat, the man that has (had?) quite problematic issues towards women) with their values.
This is too obvious to be an accident.
And this is also a stern warning. Because the ideology behind power does not stop at anything. It goes on until it eats itself.
1/ It does not take anything away. The use is not casual but deliberate and analytical. The concept of « rape culture » extends beyond sexual assault to other patterns of consent violation and power dynamics.
2/ it has been discussed for like, decades, in academic and social contexts, how attitudes in some domain reflects and reinforces them in others.
3/ Your « actual » makes an assumption about my experience that you have no basis for.
Point remains that non-consensual use of artists’ work reflects the same fundamental disregard for autonomy that characterizes other consent violations.
The casual dismissal of artists' fundamental rights to control their work and how they are used is a part of a larger cultural problem, where might would rule over law, power would rule over justice, lies over truth.
That may seem a charged argument, and it is, because it hits right and it is particularly uncomfortable to acknowledge.
The same tech leaders that push for this move over IP law are the tech leaders that fund(ed) the current dismantling of US democracy and that have chosen their political team because it aligns precisely (up to the man that got the presidential seat, the man that has (had?) quite problematic issues towards women) with their values.
This is too obvious to be an accident.
And this is also a stern warning. Because the ideology behind power does not stop at anything. It goes on until it eats itself.