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Pirky@lemmy.world 5 days ago
To my knowledge, no one technically owns the AI made material, since it wasn’t made by a person. Thus no one should be getting any ad revenue from these videos since no one actually owns it.
DougDoug did a video on AI copyright a few months ago and is rather informative. Would recommend.
It is possible to get AI images copyrighted if they contain portions that are edited by a human. For instance, this year InvokeAI copyrighted an image that was completely generative, but used extensive inpainting, by arguing that the human decision process was a necessary part of that work.
I personally disagree with that ruling (but then again I disagree with the concept of copyright altogether).
AI and operator cannot hold copyright to AI produced material, but that does not mean running copyright-protected material through AI removes the original copyright.
Google is earning ad revenue. So should Google get to keep it all then?
That is a good question that I do not know. But since they’re the ones hosting it on their servers, they may have the most legitimate claim to the ad revenue since it does cost money to keep the trailers on their servers and to stream it to viewers.
I am not a lawyer, though. This is just pure speculation on my part.
Do we have legal president yet?
We do not have a legal president and we don’t have a legal precedent for this case.
Yes. It’s all over the place, no clear lines really
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Not a lawyer, but I thought trademarks are distinct from copyright. Even if copyright went poof, it’s still possible to violate a trademark.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Correct. This is why Disney is now using a sniper of steamboat Willy in it’s opening logo - making it part of its trademark
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’ve seen that, and figured that was exactly the story. They even used a clip of the Willie’s whistled tune to lock that up, too.