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If they’re making money producing images of IP then…
by kingkawn 3y ago
If they’re making money producing images of IP then…
- sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y agoWho was making any money in this instance? I’m not super familiar with midjourney but it looks to me like he used the free version
- Glyptodon 3y agoEven if it's the paid version, the prompter had it make the infringing content for their own use. And it's only going to be anything more than equivalent to someone making their own sketch of Batman if the prompter reproduces and distributes. It's not like it's illegal for you to tell your artist friend to sketch a Batman either - Comic Cons and such are full of that.
- felipeerias 3y agoMidjourney is returning copies of copyrighted works while its Terms of Service state that “You own all Assets You create with the Services”.
- sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y agoSo you need a legal process to determine if that generation was actually infringing on copyright. IANAL so I have no idea really, and I think most of the other commenters here can’t say for sure either.
- Glyptodon 3y agoSo if someone sketches Batman do you sue Bic?
- stubish 3y agoIf Bic made a pen that came preloaded with unlicenced images of Batman and guided you to reproduce them, then yes.
- jdiff 3y agoPrompters aren't artists, and neither are image generators. The corporations that create these generators are responsible for the content they illicitly fed into them that they are now spewing out. If you sell me an endless coloring book that occasionally spits out copyrighted content, that's on you.
- kingkawn 3y agoAre they producing batman on an industrial scale to generate profits/market share that investors value?