Does it infringe copyright to make an unauthorized copy of artwork and to use that as a base image for the creation of a commercial product that is substantially similar to the original work using an AI tool to do minor visual editing to produce the commercial product? Yes, according to a recent decision of the Beijing Tongzhou Court.
In the case, individuals were convicted of criminal copyright infringement when they used an AI tool, described as a “picture-to-picture’ method to generate effects”, to copy other peoples works of art making only minor modifications to create puzzle pieces for a jigsaw puzzle commercial product.…
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