Ridiculous. They publish these pictures and work their SEO for them to be seen by as many people as possible. Now they’re complaining that the pictures haven’t been seen by a web browser but a neural network that learned from them.
If they were to prevail, copyright would be changed in its very essence. It would morph from a protection of a specific form of personal expression into protection of ideas themselves.
Taking books as an example, authors would be able not only to dictate that you do not re-publish their work verbatim, but that you also do not use the ideas contained in the book in ways that are not covered by the license you paid for.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadIf they were to prevail, copyright would be changed in its very essence. It would morph from a protection of a specific form of personal expression into protection of ideas themselves.
Taking books as an example, authors would be able not only to dictate that you do not re-publish their work verbatim, but that you also do not use the ideas contained in the book in ways that are not covered by the license you paid for.