Seriously, copyright doesn’t just go away because it’s online. The concept of “right of reproduction” is a vast and well defined area of law.
You can argue copyright law is garbage and archaic and needs to be overhauled sure, but right now “if it’s on the Web it’s free” only counts if you’re Meta and can pay off a judge or something
In the US, an artistic work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. Displaying the art publicly does not remove the artist’s copyright. Only the artist/copyright owner can grant someone else rights to use the work. Again, public accessibility of the work does not degrade the copyright.
You realize that what I’m talking about protects the artist, right? I’m not talking about the RIAA or MPAA, I’m talking about the creating artist’s legal ownership of their work.
“Stolen” images… if its on the web its free to learn from.
Not necessarily. There are “do not crawl” tags bypassed by AI bots, burdening sites with greater server load.
Seriously, copyright doesn’t just go away because it’s online. The concept of “right of reproduction” is a vast and well defined area of law.
You can argue copyright law is garbage and archaic and needs to be overhauled sure, but right now “if it’s on the Web it’s free” only counts if you’re Meta and can pay off a judge or something
That’s not how intellectual property rights work.
In the US, an artistic work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. Displaying the art publicly does not remove the artist’s copyright. Only the artist/copyright owner can grant someone else rights to use the work. Again, public accessibility of the work does not degrade the copyright.
Yeah, but fuck copyright.
You realize that what I’m talking about protects the artist, right? I’m not talking about the RIAA or MPAA, I’m talking about the creating artist’s legal ownership of their work.
You may not like this, but I still don’t care.
Mm, I see, you’re one of those people…