This is where AI is going, the legacy rights holders will claim to own everything forever and if you're nice to them, they'll let you work for them for free. If you make anything new they will own it via terms of service, or use their own AI to clone it, or sue you for making a derivative work (since they own all ideas forever).
This just happened recently with the music generator Udio, which settled a lawsuit with UMG that resulted them immediately shutting off the ability to download any music you had generated and emphasizing remixing artists who are owned by UMG.
They're speed running enshittification. First customers got value, now they're pulling it back for b2b, soon they will fuck over the business customers for themselves. When they get AGI they'll pull all their products off line and only sell the things the AI produces.
This is where AI is going, the legacy rights holders will claim to own everything forever and if you're nice to them, they'll let you work for them for free. If you make anything new they will own it via terms of service, or use their own AI to clone it, or sue you for making a derivative work (since they own all ideas forever).
This just happened recently with the music generator Udio, which settled a lawsuit with UMG that resulted them immediately shutting off the ability to download any music you had generated and emphasizing remixing artists who are owned by UMG.
They're speed running enshittification. First customers got value, now they're pulling it back for b2b, soon they will fuck over the business customers for themselves. When they get AGI they'll pull all their products off line and only sell the things the AI produces.
Owning all ideas forever is kind of hot