Different domains of copyrightable material have different norms. The music industry, in response to sampling, has established that even small, recognizable sni

Different domains of copyrightable material have different norms. The music industry, in response to sampling, has established that even small, recognizable snippets have marketable value and can therefore be infringed upon (there's it's also rife with case law with, in my opinion, bad wins by plaintiffs). For photographic images, collage is already an established art form and is generally considered transformative and fair use of the source images. I'm not familiar with any The Pirate Bay case; if you are referring to this one [0], it was in a Swedish court and I'm not familiar with Swedish copyright law. However, the first sentence says the charge was promoting infringement, not that they were engaged in infringement themselves. I don't think that's relevant to what I was replying to but could be very relevant to Getty Images's decision, if AI-generate content is infringing, they don't want to be accused of promoting infringement. There's undoubtedly already infringement taking place on Getty Images but likely at such a small scale that the organization itself is not put at risk. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial