| > While I know that styles are not copyrightable for good-faith reasons, massive abuse of good-faith is a good siren for regulation in that area. Nothing having to do with "good faith", but that style isn't really definable. There's thousands of artists that produce very similar outputs. Also it'd be very stupid, because suddenly it'd turn out that if there's two people that draw nearly identically, one could sue the other even if that happened by chance. > After OpenAI ripped Studio Ghibli, and things got blurred. Nothing blurry about it. OpenAI is within full legal right to do it. It's kinda in bad taste, that's about it. Anyone can do it. Disney could make a Ghibli style movie if they ever wanted to. I'm not sure why all the drama, because who even cares? The reason why I watched Ghibli movies wasn't ever about the particular looks. > Then there's Universal and Disney's lawsuits against Midjourney.While these are framed as character-copying, when you read between the lines, style appropriation is also something being strongly balked at You better hope it stays at characters, or we're going to have a mess of lawsuits of people and organizations suing each other because they draw eyebrows this particular way. I fail to see why is that at all desirable. And of course the big corporations will come on top of that. |
We have something called AI which knows everything, maybe they should ask them. It's very fashionable. Even if the definition is wrong, it's an AI, it can make no wrong. That's what I've heard.
> I'm not sure why all the drama, because who even cares? The reason why I watched Ghibli movies wasn't ever about the particular looks.
Because a man and a studio which draws their movies by hand [0], frame by frame, and spend literal years doing it for a single movie deserves some respect even if you don't care about the art style.
Even a top notch studio like Pixar can pump a couple of minutes per week [1].
Doing this type of work takes immense dedication, energy and time. If you think it's worthy of nothing, I can't say anything about it. I deeply respect these people for what they do, and I'm equally thankful.
> You better hope it stays at characters, or we're going to have a mess of lawsuits of people and organizations suing each other because they draw eyebrows this particular way. I fail to see why is that at all desirable.
Maybe they should drink their own poison to understand what kind of delicate balances they're poking and prodding. The desire for more monies in spite of everything should have some consequences.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1egdzja/t...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8p71cb/til_i...