robertsconley
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I didn't make this pronouncement the copyright office did by publicly rejecting several copyright applications for ai-generated art.Rob, you are not a copyright lawyer, please stop playing one on the internet.
Actual experts in the field disagree across the spectrum on this. That's why it will have to be decided in the courts and despite what some claim politics and economic power will have an outsize influence on what is decided.
The confidence with which you are making pronouncements is completely misplaced.
I am not dispensing legal advice; I am giving my opinion on what I think the appropriate course of action should be for certain legal issues.
But I had people come to me for advice. And I always tell them to talk to an attorney. But I also tell them to maximize your money when you do that do the following.
- Figure out what it is exactly you want to do.
- Read up on your rights and responsibilities before the meeting.
- Listen to what the attorney had to say especially about risks.
- Ask about your options and their levels of risk to you.
- Keep in mind that your attorney's job is to look out for you, so in general, they advise the most conservative approach with the least amount of risk.
When it comes to open content, I refer them to the licensed text the work uses and tell them to talk to the author of the work if they can about their intentions and to ask questions. I get them all the time with Blackmarsh, and it generally ends up with a variant of "Yes, I really mean it and it OK to use it for your project. Just make sure you put in the credit that I asked for (if is using the CC-BY license). Or that you make your work open content (if using
the OGL version) and update your section 15 correctly. And if they don't like making their work open content, I remind to use the CC-BY license.
So, I don't play a copyright lawyer on the internet. But I do give people the benefit of what I experienced. But I do have strong opinions on how various legal issues ought to be decided and will write about it. And if that irritates you, then so be it.