I hope some countries actually make selling AI art illegal one day. Fuck AI art and fuck everyone who prompts it, frankly.
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ai content has no copyright and this cant have the ability to be sold nobody owns it, therefore anyone can have it and these ai mfs are in it for the money, if they realize they cant sell it they wont do it
sep 2, 2025, 1:00 am • 4 0 • view
you can freely sell things that are not copyrighted/out of copyright. eg. i license some things i make cc0 on purpose specifically because i'm fine with other people selling them with or without attribution
sep 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 6 0 • view
how does one sell something they dont own? cipyright protects a creator by ensuring only they get to sell it or own it something i am missing i assume
sep 2, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
right, so something *not* copyrighted (i.e. in the public domain, or licensed equivalently in places where placing things in the public domain is impossible) has no protections about who can create copies of it. and if you *have* a copy of something tangible, *generally*, you can sell it
sep 2, 2025, 1:14 am • 8 0 • view
like if you have a paper book, you can sell it to a used book store. but you can't just make a copy of that book without further restrictions under copyright law, generally. often there are protections for making a single extra backup copy for personal use too. this is just super-high-level though
sep 2, 2025, 1:15 am • 7 0 • view
i put things out as CC0 (creativecommons.org/public-domai...) sometimes, e.g. 3D modelled assistive tools, because i care more about maximizing the number of people assisted than i do about getting attributions. i don't care if people sell 'em
sep 2, 2025, 1:17 am • 7 0 • view
You're right in that copyright protects a creator by ensuring only they get to sell it. When copyrights expire, given up, or are not permissible, than everyone is allowed to sell the work. It makes it hard for any one person to profit from it, but you can still sell it if you find a buyer.
sep 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
An example of this is physical books of classic works that are no longer under copyright. Even though Frankenstein is no longer copyrighted, people still want to buy it -- so anyone can put together an edition and try to get it into book stores. But you could print it yourself if that works for you
sep 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Open source software has long struggled with this. How do you fund a project where the output is free to copy? Typically through support contracts abnd donations. If Hollywood were to make an AI-generated movie, how do they make money? Anyone would be permitted to copy it and upload the video.
sep 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Good question! Copyright is the right to define restrictions on copies or modifications of a work made by others - that can include defining a *lack* of restrictions (Creative Commons zero).
sep 3, 2025, 6:35 am • 1 0 • view
so uncopyrighted work is technically owned by something, the something being everyone. Which means everyone can sell to everyone?
sep 3, 2025, 7:38 am • 1 0 • view
And that's why uncopyrighted works are called "public domain."
sep 3, 2025, 8:24 am • 1 0 • view
That's a way to think about it, yes! These are called "public domain" works. Everyone can also make adaptions or modifications or variations of that work, which they can sell. I can paint fanciful mustaches on printed copies of the Mona Lisa to sell. Or just the print itself.
sep 3, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
(Whether anyone wants to *buy* these prints would be entirely different conversation)
sep 3, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
2/ It's entirely legal to print/record/cover and sell the musical works of Tom Lehrer Meanwhile, only Stephen King can decide who is allowed to print copies of his stories. It all depends on the restrictions the creator chooses to set.
sep 3, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
Tom Lehrer mentioned raaaaaaahhhh
sep 3, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
you're missing a lot. I wouldn't know where to start.
sep 2, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
While I don't support the sale of AI images, you can sell prints and copies of public domain works, which this stuff falls under. Any publisher can print and sell a copy of Alice In Wonderland for instance.
sep 2, 2025, 1:43 am • 3 0 • view