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The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Personality rights are not copyright. At all. It's just that simple. Entirely different branch of law, enforced at an entirely different level in the US (state-specific instead of federal). Something can be totally free of copyright while also still being illegal to distribute for entirely different reasons.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Is it illegal to distribute AI generated likenesses of a person?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a somewhat unknown subject given the way personality rights are written across the globe (they are not consistent and some are built on an invasion of privacy scenario only). Deepfake porn lives in extremely muddy largely-untouched ground. But if it is illegal, it would simply never happen under copyright law, and this ruling does not affect it.

Let me put it this way: If I break into your house and film you doing whatever then post it on YouTube, it'll end up getting me penalized for breaking and entering, property damage, violation of privacy and who knows what else; probably a huge laundry list that'll land me locked up for a good chunk of time and you'd win on all those counts. But one you're extremely unlikely to win is copyright, unless I happen to film something like some piece of art you've made yourself in the process.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It seems the point is moot, the article was editorialised, the ruling didn't make AI generated material public domain. It just stated that AI couldn't be the copyright holder for the created materials.

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