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So mapping the image to text space would be OK, but mapping the image to the model's latent space would not be OK?

• shagie 4y ago
  Note that there are non-infringing models to use with img2img. If I drew a line sketch of the scene that I wanted and then used img2img to fill it out - that's not infringing. On the other hand, if I was to take an existing image had and then used that to transform it, it is a derivative work. If this was my image created with a camera rather than mspaint, its still a derivative work but I, as the creator of the original, can create derivative works of my own (I do it all the time). The idea that I could use someone else's image and run it through img2img to make it "not a copy" misses the point of copyright and the exclusive right of the copyright holder. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf > Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, an adaptation of that work. The owner of a copyright is generally the author or someone who has obtained the exclusive rights from the author. In any case where a copyrighted work is used without the permission of the copyright owner, copyright protection will not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully. The unauthorized adaptation of a work may constitute copyright infringement. --- With starting from text, a description of the Mona Lisa is difficult to get generative art to create without significant effort to get the Mona Lisa (without saying "I want that image"). The question is then "is a description of the Mona Lisa a derivative work" and that is likely sufficiently far away from the original to be "no."