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A comment on Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against DeviantArt & others. Parent comment

Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian... by williamcotton on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:00PM (#34384565)
Pedantically, yes, lossy compression is not 100 percent reversible. Practically, the usefulness of compression is that it does return the original content with as little loss as possible… so lossy compression is mostly reversible.

All of my other points remain unchanged by this pedantry.

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Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian... by ouid on Saturday January 14, 2023 @09:47PM (#34386307)
You can't rip something and compress it badly enough to not violate copyright when you sell it. The point of compression is to throw away information about the original in ascending order of importance.
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Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian... by eurleif on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:46AM (#34387884)
>You can't rip something and compress it badly enough to not violate copyright when you sell it.

While I doubt that specific case has been tested in court, arguably you could. If you created glitch art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art) via compression artifacts, and your work was sufficiently distinct from the original work, I think you would have a reasonable case for transformative use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use).

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Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian... by williamcotton on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:55PM (#34396288)
I'm pretty sure you were downvoted by someone who walks into MoMA and whispers to their partner that a three year old could have drawn that...
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