[Cheer2171]

It is absolutely infringement if you paint a picture in Ghibli style. You just have fair use to infringe in a personal, noncommercial, educational, etc. purpose.

Fair use is a defense to infringement, like self defense is a defense to homicide. If you infringe but are noncommercial, it is more likely to be ruled fair use. If Disney did a Ghibli style ripoff for their next movie, that is clearly not fair use.

OpenAI is clearly gaining significant material benefits from their models being able to infringe Ghibli style.

[ekianjo]

> It is absolutely infringement if you paint a picture in Ghibli style.

Of course not because by this twisted logic every piece of art is inspired by what comes before and you could claim Ghibli is just a derivative of what came before and nobody has any copyright then...

[malka1986]

> It is absolutely infringement if you paint a picture in Ghibli style.

Only if you copy their characters. If you make your own character and story, and are replicating ghibli style, it is OK. Style is not copyrightable.

[conception]

You can’t copyright a style, e.g look at the fashion industry.

[belorn]

But do not look at the music industry, because a lot of what people would think of as style is a melody, score, composition and so on.

[quxbar]

vanilla ice would like a word