Midjourney's troubles get worse as Warner Bros Discovery sues the AI image generator for copyright infringement

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Midjourney has made a calculated and profit-driven decision to offer zero protection for copyright owners even though Midjourney knows about the breathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement.”

  That… sounds worrying. It’s not hard to imagine a success here eventually being extended to criminalize any and all fan art as “piracy.”

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  • chaos@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fan art is generally protected because of a rule called “fair use”, which allows people to use copyrighted work without permission. For example, if you briefly quote a book, the author won’t have success if they go after you for copying from their book, even though you clearly did. Generally speaking, a person making fan art and not selling it is going to be protected under fair use. The law wants creators to have control of the thing they created, but we all live in a shared culture and we all deserve to participate in the art we experience, so there’s some wiggle room, and this has been the case long before AI was a thing.

    What these AI companies are doing, on the other hand… well, it hasn’t really been tested in court yet, but they’re doing a lot more than single images or brief quotes, and they’re doing it for money, so they’ll likely have some work to do.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Generally speaking, a person making fan art and not selling it is going to be protected under fair use.

      This is not generally true. The fan art also usually needs to be sufficiently transformative, and could still be violating, for example, if a character is widely licensed.

      Fair use is really complicated. Usually it’s better to see if the copyright holder has any public policies on community creations, like WOTC’s fan content policy.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So, no commissions or patreon support if you are drawing fan art, got it.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, my main concern is the characterization of this as “piracy.” It’s not like image generating AIs are reproducing their actual films, right? Yet, that’s how they’ve chosen to classify it, and I worry that it could set a precedent that could be used to sort of sidestep fair use protections.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good. Please die off.

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  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could be talking about either company here. I’m no fan of AI but you know this will set precedent for scummy companies like Warner Brothers to over reach into other things for “copyright reasons”.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope, I don’t know that.

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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