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Comment by pelagicAustral | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,", do make wonder how said "compensation" is going to be calculated, and distributed.

Assets like New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit (all mentioned in the article), do come with editorial lines, perhaps editorial lines I do not agree with, so how is their content going to be injected in my search results/gpt answers? Is it going to be an organic affair such as:

- (Me) "How many times a year shall I renew my socks?"

- "That's and amazing question! According to journal X ... (blah blah blah, probably a good answer)" (maybe add some notes for a copyrighted article with a link)

Or it going to turn into:

- (Same question)

- "The far-right movement seems to be skipping sock renewal policies, but contrary to this, brown socks are trending in Europe this coming summer, don't miss this chance to buy yours at: website.com"

There's no way to create media that doesn't have an editorial line. LLM generated media has an editorial line, in terms of what gets filtered, what gets injected into prompts, and what biases exist in the data. Attribution of work and allowing the reader to decide their level of trust in the source is the only known defense.

>I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,"

Possibly some European style music licensing model, but for articles. PRS for example[1] in the UK is a copyright collective. Bars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return. The PRS body distributes what it decides is an equitable distribution to artists & labels. For most of PRS' history, there was very little science in determining who had the most plays, but everyone seemed to agree with the distribution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music

Bars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return.

I worked for a company that was signed up for a similar service in the United States.

We had a blanket license for music, for which we paid a little over $1 million each year. This was around 2001.

A couple of times a year, we'd pull an intern aside and his job for the entire day was to sit there with a pencil and steno pad and write down all the music we used. That was typed into a report and sent to the licensing company which determined how much each artist would get paid.

These days, with advances in music recognition technology, it's probably all very automated and more thorough.

Worth pointing out that brown shirts (and matching socks hopefully) were a very far right symbol probably pink or rainbow if you’re going for anti Nazi look

And for anyone who's wondering why https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Oh shit I did not know that. Is there any law against it or would I get fined in the UK? I’m Malaysian and all this has nothing to do with me so I wasn’t aware. I get my shirts and socks essentially randomly & sometimes the colors may unintentionally represent something wrong.

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