Modifying without consent
May I introduce to you, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
new tool could be used to modify others’ works without their consent.
This specific part is kinda stupid.
Nothing was ever preventing anyone from modifying an artists work. Its incredibly common.
No one needs consent to modify anything.
To distrubute something that isn’t yours that doesn’t fall under fair use, absolutely. But modifying without consent is a joke.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
May I introduce you to Fair Use Doctrine.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hope you have the money to defend against claims in court.
In fact the biggest problem with the DMCA is how easy it is to force an issue to court without penalties for filing fraudulent claims. Most people would have to just roll over and accept the takedown. No one can afford to test fair use against Sony, or Disney, or Nintendo.
Syrc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think all the uproar is about new Grok functions that allow you to edit with AI and repost (aka distribute) images directly from within Xitter (I’m not sure that this is the case but I’m definitely not going to log in that thing to verify that).
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wasn’t going to log in to verify either lol.
Even if that’s the case, it will come down to fair use policy which will allow quite a lot.
If the specific instance of sharing isn’t fair use and Twitter allows it, then sue them, someone will.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They can use it to farm engagement. Is that the same thing?
And yeah, that’s the icky part. This is a dream for spammers and “cheap SEO” types who don’t really care about copyright law in this context.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wonder how that would go in court, I wonder if it’s been tried before? I could see an argument that if that was the intention and how they made money maybe it wouldn’t be fair use.
inconel@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Many artists explicitly state no repost without their permissio, requiring proper credits and such. It IS a dick move to reposts with edits while directly interacting author’s post; that makes people using the AI feature violating author’s will knowingly.
In reality, people don’t read poster’s comment or bio, when “single button to AIgen and use the art as prompt” exists. But it’s basically X greenlit anyone to do so against artists’ will, and fair use can argue the use of art but never force artists to stay in a platform. That’s what’s happening.