As the artist in the article points out, the artwork in the model doesn't belong to her and by current legal standards she has no authority to give permission; of course the corporate owners do have authority, and I'm not even sure you need new laws to enforce the copyright complaint.
I was complaining about all of this when the derivation was based on "the internet" and everyone was being ripped off at once. All the AI-generated art out there is doing the same thing.
Of course most of this is being used to create derivations of trendy pop art, so are we really losing anything? Was there ever any hope for artistic capitalism as something that communicates in meaningful ways beyond the most local of scale?
I was complaining about all of this when the derivation was based on "the internet" and everyone was being ripped off at once. All the AI-generated art out there is doing the same thing.
Of course most of this is being used to create derivations of trendy pop art, so are we really losing anything? Was there ever any hope for artistic capitalism as something that communicates in meaningful ways beyond the most local of scale?