In a nut shell, people are creating film trailers with AI and sharing on YouTube. Film studios are now asking Google for a slice of the profits as it’s their intellectual property.
In a nut shell, people are creating film trailers with AI and sharing on YouTube. Film studios are now asking Google for a slice of the profits as it’s their intellectual property.
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Not a lawyer, but I thought trademarks are distinct from copyright. Even if copyright went poof, it’s still possible to violate a trademark.
Correct. This is why Disney is now using a sniper of steamboat Willy in it’s opening logo - making it part of its trademark
I’ve seen that, and figured that was exactly the story. They even used a clip of the Willie’s whistled tune to lock that up, too.
It is possible to get AI images copyrighted if they contain portions that are edited by a human. For instance, this year InvokeAI copyrighted an image that was completely generative, but used extensive inpainting, by arguing that the human decision process was a necessary part of that work.
I personally disagree with that ruling (but then again I disagree with the concept of copyright altogether).
Google is earning ad revenue. So should Google get to keep it all then?
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AI and operator cannot hold copyright to AI produced material, but that does not mean running copyright-protected material through AI removes the original copyright.
Do we have legal president yet?
We do not have a legal president and we don’t have a legal precedent for this case.
Yes. It’s all over the place, no clear lines really