Fred588 wrote:If they are using millions of others' images and not searching them for copyright notices they are inviting a class-action suit that will bankrupt them. That they say it is impossible to request permission does not relieve them of the obligation to do so.
If they are using millions of others' images and not searching them for copyright notices they are inviting a class-action suit that will bankrupt them. That they say it is impossible to request permission does not relieve them of the obligation to do so.[/quote]
dlodoski wrote:ghostofmyeyes wrote: .....Fair use exists as a type of purpose.
Ok, so which exemption category do you think applies here?
I would not be surprised to see this ending up in court case sometime soon. As for fair use exemptions, I read that "transformative use" might apply, because the resulting images are usually very different from any single one in the training set. Another exemption considers how much of the original copyrighted work is found in the disputed work. And here things get really fuzzy, because you could argue that the AI artwork contains only very little input from any one copyrighted source, but on the other hand the AI uses a whole lot of copyrighted sources to generate its output.
So, yes. Interesting times for copyright lawyers.