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We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Much like @Ross_audio, I have studied this intently for business reasons. They are absolutely right. This is not a transformative work. This is a direct copy of a trademarked and/or copyrighted character for the purpose of generating revenue. That's simply not legal for the same reason that you can't draw and sell your own Spider-Man comics about a teenager that gains the proportional strength and abilities of a spider, but you can sell your own Grasshopper-Man comics about a teenager that gains the proportional strength and abilities of a grasshopper. As long as you use your own designs and artwork. Because then it is transformative. And parody. Both are legal. What Midjourney is doing is neither transformative nor parody.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it would not be strange to me if that's how it works in the states, but I think drawing something (not selling, the example was not monetary) does not have international reach

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Midjourney Inc. is in San Francisco, so U.S. law is what applies here.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 9 months ago

The example is someone drawing copyright for learning and not selling it