• David GerardOPMA
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    3 months ago

    The image gatcha does not create a new copyright. There might be a copyright in the text of a complex prompt (do you feel lucky in court?) Mere “sweat of the brow” does not generate a new copyright in the US, so e.g. retouching work on a photo does not generate a new copyright and photos of a public domain artwork do not create a new copyright.

    This doesn’t touch on the old copyrights of the stuff Midjourney trained on to make its computer-mediated collages. Those copyrights still exist.

    Does the computer-mediated collage launder the previous copyrights? The answer is “do you feel lucky in court?”

    • @o7___o7
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      103 months ago

      It’s Tornado Cash, but for pictures of Garfield with a machete.

      • David GerardOPMA
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        63 months ago

        North Korea: “AUGH MY EYES”