Comment on AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
grue@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s not that there’d be no reason to buy/license it for commercial use, it’s that it would be impossible to do so. Downstream users simply couldn’t legally use it at all – no matter how much or little they wanted to pay – unless they were willing to release their work as copyleft, too.
In other words, making* AI output copyleft maximizes freedom, but it’s hardly “free.” And that impossibly-high cost to those who would leech is why it would be a good thing.
(* Or rather, a court correctly ruling it as such since it’s already rightfully copyleft by virtue of having already used copyleft input)
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel this assumes two things.
AI art would be used in products that can be copyrighted in the first place, and not things like marketing/political campaigns or decor.
depending on the exact license agreement, you could use copylefted things in commercial products. The actual art can be free to reuse/share, but the rest of product may not be; things like illustrations in a book say (an analogy I drew up based on how Android works, commercial products based on a copylefted component).