/lit/ - Literature

>>21035515

Nobody creates in a vacuum, you are inspired by everything you have ever seen or experienced. Copyright covers your actual work, not a style. And not every aspect of your work is protected. Copyright can cover a character but it does not cover scènes à faire or the general things a character does. Even entire plot lines or compositions of photos are typically unprotected aspects of a work. If you shoot an iconic photo of a house lit by a particularly stunning sunset with a cloud formation and a child playing in the street, that work is protected, but it does not prohibit someone else from taking another photo with those same elements and also selling it.

This is differs from fair use, which allows you to use of otherwise protected works without the permission of the wrights holder.

The courts have already ruled that bot scraping of artwork for ai use is fair use. Laws can change, and courts can reverse themselves but as it stands everything is currently legal. If the law changes it would only affect new works created after the change as retroactive laws are unconstitutional in freedomland at least.