No one here mentioned ClearViewAI.....
....scraping billions (yes....billions) of images from FB and elsewhere.....
....and selling the result to police forces and other entities worldwide.
In this and the Copilot matter, it seems to me that copyright owners are just like the rest of us.......we have NO IDEA who might be out there stealing our work or our privacy.
The fundamental problem is "the cloud".
Perhaps we should adjust the Benjamin Franklin dictum: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
As: "Those who would give up essential Control, to purchase a little temporary Cashflow improvement, deserve neither Control nor Cashflow."