[ExI] 'Copyright' (Was: Re: to my fellow renaissance life forms)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:39 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 1:59 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:46 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 1:15 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have wondered, now and then - between increasingly better 3D
>>>> animation tools and available assets, text to speech where the better
>>>> versions can pass for human, and of course one person can write a script -
>>>> if it might be possible for one person to create an entire film that would
>>>> entertain most people were they to see it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not currently, no. It took all that Disney had to de-age Mark Hamill for
>>> the Mandalorian finale and even that wasn't very convincing. We still can't
>>> convincingly animate a person talking.
>>>
>>
>> The first such efforts would be 3D animated movies, of course.  Pixar has
>> people talking in them all the time, and their animations are good enough.
>>
>
> OK, so right now a Pixar movie is created by a large number of creatives:
> writers, directors, animators, composers, musicians, voice actors, etc.
> What a single person could right now wouldn't be comparable to that.
>

Thus why I set the standards lower.  Not necessarily Pixar-grade, just
something that would entertain most people were they to see it.


> The tools will get better--probably to the point where a single person
> could animate an entire movie. That still leaves writing the story,
>

One person can do that.  Single-author novels have long been a thing.


> composing and performing the score,
>

Also already doable by single people.  One recent famous example is Toby
Fox, but he's far from the only person writing such length of scores solo.


> and doing the voice acting. Voice synthesis is also nowhere near ready to
> replace human voice actors.
>

Except that it is, in certain cases such as (again citing a famous example
but far from the only example) the Vocaloids.
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