>Even though many such posts skirt perilously close to copyright-driven bans, the continuing survival of ‘IP-appropriated’ non-porn deepfake video posts by majo

>Even though many such posts skirt perilously close to copyright-driven bans, the continuing survival of ‘IP-appropriated’ non-porn deepfake video posts by major YouTube deepfakers such as Ctrl-Shift-Face suggest a broad studio and rights-holder tolerance towards such activity, at least for the time being. I would not be surprised if this isn't so much tolerance as much as it is ignorance. Copyright enforcement is hilariously expensive, and the only reason why any litigation even happens is that larger outfits are also hilariously petty. The mantra of copyright maximalism is that if anyone is even remotely touching "your work", you storm in and demand whatever money you can purely for the sake of keeping people off your "property". Trust me, once they run out of nominally-SFW-but-actually-NSFW communities to ban, you'll see movie studios cotton onto what they consider to be theft[0] and start prosecuting something that doesn't really harm them in any way. [0] Assume, for the sake of this discussion, that if we as a people decide someone gets a government monopoly on something, then depriving them of their monopoly is stealing from them. Yes, I hate this logic too.