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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • Fan fiction and fan art, without appropriate permissions or licenses, are usually an infringement of the right of the copyright holder to prepare and license derivative works based on the original. Copyrights allow their owners to decide how their works can be used, including creating new derivative works off of the original product.

    Seems pretty clear. It’s at the discretion of the owner. The profit aspect doesn’t matter in terms of the law, it just makes it likely that companies will go to court over it.

    Additionally, usually as long as the fan content is non-commercial, it is not a problem with copyright holders.

    Notice how it says with copyright holders and not with copyright laws.



  • It doesn’t break copyright laws because training something on any kind of data, as long as the data was legally obtained, is legal (this includes scrapping publicly available data).

    You can’t generate a sonic picture and sell it for the same reason you can’t draw sonic in Photoshop and sell it. These are tools and it’s up to the user to use them in a legal way.

    Fan art is actually illegal, companies let it be because they get instantly thrashed by fans if they complain.

    Copyright laws are broken but in the opposite way. Can we rename this sub to “How to bootlick the copyright machine”