Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

As crappy as it sounds.

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      What does that have to do with anything here?? I don’t know about you, but my likeness is not permanently located in a public space…

      Freedom of panorama (FoP) is a provision in the copyright laws of various jurisdictions that permits taking photographs and video footage and creating other images (such as paintings) of buildings and sometimes sculptures and other art works which are permanently located in a public space, without infringing on any copyright that may otherwise subsist in such works, and the publishing of such images.

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
        23·
        4 hours ago

        I’m not sure of the correct term. It should be obvious though that if anyone can copyright claim their own image, it would basically make taking photos in many public places impossible.

        • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
          21·
          3 hours ago

          It’s not impossible at all. You just have to blur the faces and any identifying marks unless you’ve obtained explicit consent. Kind people already do this regularly.