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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by yencabulator on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:51PM (#37428293)
> First, style is not copyrightable. I could draw something in a Studio Ghibli style and they could do nothing about it, legally speaking.

Meanwhile, drawing Mickey ears on the wall of a kindergarten is not safe.

If you feel strongly that generational ML somehow launders copyright out of the bits, train an image generator purely on Disney copyrighted material and share the model on the web, see how well that works out.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by livrem on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:36AM (#37430215)
Training purely on Disney's images would probably be difficult, considering the huge amount of images you need to train a model from scratch. But here is a "fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model trained on screenshots from a popular animation studio". Seems to have worked out quite well so far as that model was last updated last year.

https://civitai.com/models/24/modern-disney

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by yencabulator on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:31PM (#37436670)
"Modern Disney" is neat, I wasn't aware of that. Just so you know, The Mouse is much more fierce about protecting their classic properties like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, so this doesn't quite demonstrate my point yet.
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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by gmerc on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:50AM (#37431179)
Mickey (who will enter the public domain soon) is a specific expression and both copy righted and trademarked.
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