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[-] Pseu@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Copyright is not ownership. You can own something, but not hold the copyright to it.

Personality rights are also not copyright and as the ruling was not about personality rights, it did not affect these rights (where they exist in the US). Disregarding both AI and the recent ruling, if someone takes a photograph of you, you do not hold the copyright to it, the photographer does. If the photographer then does something with that image that harms your reputation you may be able to sue.

And no, it is unlikely that there is a distinction between one's likeness and "AI generated likeness," it usually doesn't matter if you use a photograph or a drawing of an individual, it is the identity that is protected regardless of what tool was used.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."

I can commercialise your AI generated likeness freely under the new laws.

[-] CileTheSane@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is on the same level as "You can rob a store then when the cops come to your house say you were never there. They can't arrest you if you weren't at the scene of the crime."

Lying is not a legal defense.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago
[-] CileTheSane@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

So you admit that I do own my likeness now?

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Do you? That depends on your local laws and regulations.

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