halfempty@kbin.socialtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Really interesting thoughts on whether the creators of free software really want their users to be free
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1 year agoI was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.
The article compares Photography, (which despite being “created” by nature is copyrightable), to AI art. The difference between AI art and photography is that AI art is derivative of other artists and generalized into a Model. Nature is not derivative of other photography. Derivative work has special exemptions in copyright law which prevents it from being subject to copyright.