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I don't know if there is a concept in copyright that prevents someone from viewing your work. Like, if you created a lovely piece of art, hung it on the outsid
by unreal37 4y ago
I don't know if there is a concept in copyright that prevents someone from viewing your work.
Like, if you created a lovely piece of art, hung it on the outside of your house, and I was walking on the sidewalk and viewed it. I would not owe you money and you would have no claim of copyright against me.
Copyright covers copying. Not viewing.
So an AI views your art, classifies it, does whatever magic it does to turn your art into a matrix of numbers. The model doesn't contain a copy of your art.
Of course, a court needs to decide this. But I can't see how allowing an AI model to view a picture constitutes making an illegal copy.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Of course, a court needs to decide this. But I can’t see how allowing an AI model to view a picture constitutes making an illegal copy. Memory involves making a copy, and copies anywhere except in the human brain are within the scope of copyright (but may fall into exceptions like Fair Use.)
- darreninthenet 4y agoAnd this is where it becomes tricky as holding a copy in memory so software can "use" it being against copyright also prevents it being displayed on Adobe's website, or Adobe shrinking it to fit on advertising collage for Adobe Stock images etc, all of which the artist would say is fine as otherwise their work cannot be advertised for them to make money through Adobe's service. Supposing the AI said "here's the picture you asked for, btw it's influenced most by these four artists and here's links to their works on Adobe Stock"... is that better (or worse)?