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Comment Re:A garbage lawsuit. (Score 1) 83

Wow, If you have no understanding of copyright you should refrain from commenting on it.

1. You cannot copyright "looking like Daryl Hannah" as there is no creative work on that. You could copyright a picture of her as the photographer but that does not bar other people from taking her picture.

2. Fictional characters do get copyrighted, do some research on "sufficient delineation" As this is one of the metrics to determining copyright protection.

The Sufficient Delineation Test
The second test, and the one most often used by courts when grappling with extending copyright protection to a character, is the sufficient delineation test. The sufficient delineation test asks whether a specific character is “especially distinctive,” that is, whether the character displays “consistent, widely identifiable traits.” Some courts have broken this test into three prongs: (1) whether the character has physical as well as conceptual properties; (2) whether the character is recognizable through those identifiable traits whenever it appears; and (3) whether the character contains elements of original expression. The heart of this test is an attempt to determine the exact point at which the scale tips and a character no longer is a stock character but becomes a sufficiently delineated character protected by copyright.

Comment Re:A garbage lawsuit. (Score 1) 83

You paid an artist to make you a Superman image, guess what, the artist violated copyright in a way that is not supported by fair use, as did the AI.

And with Superman being a sufficiently delineated character, even an original drawing of him would be considered infringement, no actual copying necessary.

Not sure what point you are getting at here.

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