Re:An IP Attorney’s Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Ac...
by pessimizer on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:47PM
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> I don't understand how using an image as input to a model is a copyright infringement.
Look at the extreme case, then. What if that one image is your only input, and your output is identical to it? What if your output is your input reflected over the x-axis? What if your output just crops the input? What if your output is your input cut into irregular pieces and randomly rearranged? Which outputs violate copyright?
Slightly less extreme: suppose your input is two images, and your output is those two images next to each other in a single image? Or your output is the second image, reduced in size and placed in the center of the first? What if both of the inputs are human figures, and your output is to cut out the face and hands of one image and put it onto the other?
> images that are derivative of that original image, the same way a counterfeiter would make a copy of it.
Only one of these outputs are anything a counterfeiter would do. Are any of the others copyright-violating?
Look at the extreme case, then. What if that one image is your only input, and your output is identical to it? What if your output is your input reflected over the x-axis? What if your output just crops the input? What if your output is your input cut into irregular pieces and randomly rearranged? Which outputs violate copyright?
Slightly less extreme: suppose your input is two images, and your output is those two images next to each other in a single image? Or your output is the second image, reduced in size and placed in the center of the first? What if both of the inputs are human figures, and your output is to cut out the face and hands of one image and put it onto the other?
> images that are derivative of that original image, the same way a counterfeiter would make a copy of it.
Only one of these outputs are anything a counterfeiter would do. Are any of the others copyright-violating?