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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by bigiain on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:12PM (#34008207)
> Copyright law doesn't cover general "style". Try to imagine the minefield that would exist if it were changed to work that way.

We don’t need to “try to imagine”, we just need to wait a bit and watch Walt’s reanimated corpse and army of undead lawyers come out swinging for those “mice in the general style of Mickey Mouse”.

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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by tidenly on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:04AM (#34012046)
Intellectual property and copyright are entirely different, and you'd be come after by Disney for making those kinds of images with or without AI. I wish people in the fight against AI would stop trotting this argument out, it muddies stronger arguments against it.
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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by dredmorbius on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:38AM (#34014349)
Copyright is a subset of intellectual property.

Intellectual property generally includes copyright, patents, trademark, and trade secrets, though there are broader claims such as likeness, celebrity rights, moral rights (e.g., droit d'auteur in French/EU law), and probably a few others since I began writing this comment (the scope seems to be increasing, generally).

I suspect you intended to distinguish trademark and copyright.

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