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Generative AI's Use of Artists' Work Sparks Copyright Challenges and Calls for New Compensation Models

Generative AI platforms like Stable Diffusion have ingested billions of images and captions from the internet, enabling them to produce new works that mimic artists' styles without legal ownership or compensation. Scholars Kate Crawford and Jason Schultz emphasize that current copyright law, rooted in centuries-old pr…

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Generative AI platforms like Stable Diffusion have ingested billions of images and captions from the internet, enabling them to produce new works that mimic artists' styles without legal ownership or compensation. Scholars Kate Crawford and Jason Schultz emphasize that current copyright law, rooted in centuries-old pr…
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Generative AI's Use of Artists' Work Sparks Copyright Challenges and Calls for New Compensation Models Generative AI platforms like Stable Diffusion have ingested billions of images and captions from the internet, enabling them to produce new works that mimic artists' styles without legal ownership or compensation. Schol... Read the full IIPLA blog post: https://iipla.org/blog/generative-ai-s-use-of-artists-work-sparks-copyright-challenges-and-calls-for-new-compensation-models

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