> But if I train my own neural network inside my skull using some artist's style, that's ok?
How well the network inside your skull can manipulate your limbs to reproduce good-quality work in some artist's style?
Our current framework for thinking about "fair use", "copyright", "trademark" and similar were thought about into existence during an era when the options for "network inside the skull" were to laboriously learn a skill to draw or learn how to use a machine like printing press/photocopier that produces exact copies.
Availability of a machine that automates previously hand-made things much more cheaply or is much more powerful often requires rethinking those concepts.
If I copy a book putting ink on paper letter by letter manually, that's ok, think of those monks in monasteries who do that all the time. And Mr Gutenberg's machine just makes that ink-on-paper process more efficient...
>How well the network inside your skull can manipulate your limbs to reproduce good-quality work in some artist's style?
An experienced artist can probably do this in a couple weeks, depending on how complex the style is.
>If I copy a book putting ink on paper letter by letter manually, that's ok, think of those monks in monasteries who do that all the time.
According to copyright, no, that's not okay. Copyright does not care about the method of reproduction, it just distinguishes between authorized and unauthorized reproduction. A copyist copying a book by hand without authorization is just as illegal as doing it with a photocopier. Likewise, if you decide to copy a music CD using a hex editor and lots of patience, at the end of the process you will end up with a perfectly illegal copy of the original CD.
So the question stands. Why is studying artwork with eyeballs and a brain and reproducing the style acceptable, but doing the same with software isn't?
How well the network inside your skull can manipulate your limbs to reproduce good-quality work in some artist's style?
Our current framework for thinking about "fair use", "copyright", "trademark" and similar were thought about into existence during an era when the options for "network inside the skull" were to laboriously learn a skill to draw or learn how to use a machine like printing press/photocopier that produces exact copies.
Availability of a machine that automates previously hand-made things much more cheaply or is much more powerful often requires rethinking those concepts.
If I copy a book putting ink on paper letter by letter manually, that's ok, think of those monks in monasteries who do that all the time. And Mr Gutenberg's machine just makes that ink-on-paper process more efficient...