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Suppose you had some kind of AI Deepfake program operating off a large database of copyrighted photos and you asked it to "make a picture of a handsome man on a

Suppose you had some kind of AI Deepfake program operating off a large database of copyrighted photos and you asked it to "make a picture of a handsome man on a horse" and the man's head was an exact duplicate of George Clooney's head from a specific magazine cover, would that be infringement? Would selling the services of an AI that took copyrighted photos of celebrities and edited them into porn movies be infringement? I don't know the answers to those questions but I find it very weird that people think large blocks of typed text are less worthy of copyright protection than other forms of media.

dogma1138 5y ago
That would potentially be an infringement of the copyright of the photographer but in any case it’s an infringement of the personality rights of George Clooney. You aren’t allowed to sell someone’s likeness without their permission. You don’t need an AI for this if you create a portrait of Clooney and sell it or make any use that isn’t covered by fair use he can sue you. Depending on the composition of the picture for example if Clooney is naked and say Putin is riding in the “bitch seat” of the saddle then you also are quite likely be open for a libel suit as well.
- hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
  Satire does not usually fall under libel/defamation, though, right? >For example, in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988), Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for a unanimous court, stated that a parody depicting the Reverend Jerry Falwell as a drunken, incestuous son could not be defamation since it was an obvious parody, not intended as a statement of fact. To find otherwise, the Court said, was to endanger First Amendment protection for every artist, political cartoonist, and comedian who used satire to criticize public figures. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire
  - dogma1138 5y ago
    Depends on the legal system in question and the intent and usage. The US system isn’t the only one on the planet you know, the UK still has political cartoonists despite a very different definition for what defamation is which the example above can fall under.

dogma1138 5y ago

That would potentially be an infringement of the copyright of the photographer but in any case it’s an infringement of the personality rights of George Clooney. You aren’t allowed to sell someone’s likeness without their permission. You don’t need an AI for this if you create a portrait of Clooney and sell it or make any use that isn’t covered by fair use he can sue you. Depending on the composition of the picture for example if Clooney is naked and say Putin is riding in the “bitch seat” of the saddle then you also are quite likely be open for a libel suit as well.

hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
Satire does not usually fall under libel/defamation, though, right? >For example, in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988), Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for a unanimous court, stated that a parody depicting the Reverend Jerry Falwell as a drunken, incestuous son could not be defamation since it was an obvious parody, not intended as a statement of fact. To find otherwise, the Court said, was to endanger First Amendment protection for every artist, political cartoonist, and comedian who used satire to criticize public figures. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire
- dogma1138 5y ago
  Depends on the legal system in question and the intent and usage. The US system isn’t the only one on the planet you know, the UK still has political cartoonists despite a very different definition for what defamation is which the example above can fall under.