You misunderstand work for hire a bit. Just because someone hires a photographer to do a shoot does not in and of itself make the photographs the result of work for hire. That would make so many things work for hire! It doesn’t work like that. Work for hire happens in two specific circumstances:

You 100% have no right to privacy in public. If you are in the street, anyone in the U.S. (laws will certainly vary by country) can take photos of you and you have zero say in it whatsoever. Those photos are their own property and not yours. They can’t use your image to promote a product, but the image itself is…

The photographers are 100% in the right here. They made the image, not KK... she’s just in it. People who are in images don’t own them because they’re in them. There are issues of privacy and use that complicate the issue for sure, but copyright protects the creators (photographers, artists, writers, etc).

I would argue that your “solution” is more worthy of quotes than this one, as it’s proven itself invalid. It’s like the “solution” to systemic obesity being people don’t eat as much, or the “solution” to the opiates problem for people not to do drugs, or the “solution” to teenage pregnancy (or overpopulation) is for…

I mean we have 100 years of evidence that this isn’t going to happen.

You’re right! Everyone who owns a private plane needs to turn it in right now!

There’s no real motivation to provide such a notification by either Valve or the publisher since the probably is often very temporary and could put off more sales than refunds that would have been requested.

I suspect that once they become mainstream that’s just what transportation will be. If you live in a city, you won’t own a car at all. You’ll subscribe to a service. I’ve done the math: a fleet operator could be profitable with user fees of $30/mo plus $0.10/km. These figures assume purpose-built cars.

Nobody posing this question is arguing that we shouldn’t trust self driving cars, or that they’ll figure out our own moral quandaries for us. The point of this thought experiment is to figure out what we should program the computer to do in the worst case scenario. To not even consider the worst case scenario seems…

Oh for fuck’s sake! Can we please give up on the stupid fucking trolley problem as relates to autonomous cars?

I know exactly how I feel about it: I can’t stand it.