I've been developing ways to sew and wire some rather impressive light-up clothes that look like they come straight from the Tron movies. Whenever I wear this gear to events, conventions, or just out and about, I get people who ask me if I sell them or if I do commissions. My question is whether or not I could legally sell this stuff on platforms like Etsy.

If I can do so, what is the line, so to speak, of how close I'm able to get to Disney's property without breaking copyright? Obviously, I won't be listing these garments as "Tron Costumes" or using the names of other characters or anything, nor would they be designs directly taken from the movies, but how different would the designs have to be? Can I keep the sort of circuitry-inspired angular designs? Could I sell the back-mounted disks? Would the disks have to look completely different?

Thank you for any advice!

I made this mug design just for fun but I really like it and now I want to sell the mugs. I just pulled the geese off the internet and I'm sure most of the individual drawings are protected through copyright. However, since I used it to make something new does that still apply? I would rather not infringe copyright or steal another artists income, and if that's the case I just wont sell these. Thanks for any advice.

“Foundational principles of copyright law dictate that copying protected sound recordings for the purpose of developing a commercial AI product like Udio’s requires permission from rightsholders,” Sony alleged in its complaint. “Otherwise, such AI offerings will erode the value of the artistic works that comprise the essential raw materials that allow them to function in the first place. If left unmoored from existing and longstanding legal constraints, such products could supplant, rather than support, genuine human creativity.”

"TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini." (Article)

Hi, any advice as I dont have the money as we are poor. The chaos is emailing me to buy an annual license so they will not pursue the unlicensed enscape i used. Im not using enscape as my laptop was destroyed and beyond repair. I used enscape when i was in college but not anymore however we are still poor... i don't know what to do

Hola a tod@s.

Estoy buscando consejo porque estoy bastante preocupada.

Un canal de YouTube ha solicitado la retirada de tres de mis vídeos por una supuesta infracción de derechos de autor. Son vídeos donde ambos analizamos libros.

Mis vídeos son faceless (no aparezco en cámara) y utilizan un guion redactado por mí, una narración diferente, música de la biblioteca gratuita de youtube, imágenes creadas con IA o procedentes de bancos de imágenes y una edición completamente propia. En cambio, el otro canal aparece en cámara durante sus vídeos además de usar puntualmente imágenes.

Las similitudes que pueden existir se deben a que analizamos las mismas obras, por lo que es inevitable hablar de aspectos como:

• La biografía del autor.
• El contexto histórico.
• El argumento de la novela.
• Los temas principales.
• La influencia que ha tenido la obra.

En algunos casos también llegamos a conclusiones o reflexiones políticas similares, pero entiendo que eso puede ocurrir cuando dos personas analizan el mismo libro.

He comparado sus guiones y los míos  y no he encontrado frases idénticas, párrafos copiados ni expresiones formuladas de la misma manera. Las diferencias en la redacción, el desarrollo del contenido y la forma de explicar las ideas son, en mi opinión, claras. De hecho, sus vídeos suelen ser más largos y detenerse más en la biografía o historia mientras que los míos son más cortos.

Mi duda es la siguiente:

¿Puede fundamentarse una reclamación por derechos de autor únicamente en este tipo de coincidencias, o sería necesario demostrar que se ha copiado la expresión original del otro creador (su forma concreta de redactar y desarrollar el contenido), en lugar de coincidir únicamente en hechos, argumentos o interpretaciones derivados de la misma obra literaria?

Además, YouTube me ha indicado que no puedo presentar una contranotificación hasta que los vídeos sean retirados.

¿Alguien ha pasado por una situación parecida o sabe cómo suele resolverse este tipo de casos? Tengo 3 solicitudes de retirada de vídeo por parte de él, o sea que si no me aceptaran la contranotificación, me quitarían directamente el canal. Estaba pensando en eliminarlos directamente y no arriesgarme, pero eso significaría que le estoy dando la razón (cuando considero que no la tiene) y por esa regla de tres, cada vez que suba un vídeo en el que él y yo coincidimos analizando un libro, me podría solicitar la retirada de nuevo porque sabría que acabaría eliminando el vídeo.

Ojalá me podáis ayudar, muchas gracias!

Hi, I want to start making video essays but I don’t really want to be one of those YouTubers who just talk into the camera all vid. If I were to edit the background with clips, videos, pictures, etc that relate to my video instead of my face, what would be a way to avoid getting I trouble.

Like if I use a clip from a movie or tv show can I get copywrited or sued. Also what if I use a picture from google or a clip from some else’s video can they sue you or get your video taken down?

I am thinking of starting a new channel to put out analysis or story behind a TV or Movie (not narrative of story); instead what the series or movie deals with. When I tried looking for assets, all are protected under copy rights including posters or trailers. Wondering how the YT Channels are using these clips or posters without permission or copyright issue. Any suggestions or solutions?

Today the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the $1.5 Billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright lawsuit, and entered judgment.

The court also awarded plaintiffs' class counsel $101,561,111 in attorneys' fees. Good work if you can get it!

(They wanted $187,500,000.)

Welcome to r/AlmostPublicDomain, a community dedicated to discussing a hypothetical middle ground between traditional copyright and the public domain.

The idea is simple: instead of paying licensing fees, people could earn limited permission to use certain creative works by contributing something valuable in return.

Hey folks,

I am an independent music creator with a small following, but no label, no additional support, just me out here doing my thing. I straddle the rock and classical genre, and one of my projects was/is releasing a full rendition of Schubert's song cycle, Winterreise. My friend Ben, a pianist, and I have recorded and produced ourselves in the first quarter of songs recently. 100% recorded, produced, released, and promoted by myself, artwork by Ben. IT is found here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2MzRLo2tz89Z9M6WrLge6x?si=Yn5GkxxLTPa6kE02RAiRrg

Just recently, about three months after release of the EP, I get a notice from my distribution platform, Tunecore stating that my recording of the first song, Gute Nacht, has been copyright claimed and I have to provide documentation about my ownership of the recording. I sent them the project files and several individual clips of piano and voice separately from the session. My Tunecore rep claims that this isn't sufficient and they require pdf documentation to protect me from Sony claiming all royalties for this specific track. Here's the latest email with this:

Thank you for your response.
 
We understand that audio files and music project files cannot be converted into a PDF in their original format. However, please note that audio files and project files alone do not serve as proof of ownership or exclusive rights.
 
The supporting documentation we are requesting should demonstrate your legal rights to the recording. Examples of acceptable documents include signed exclusive license agreements, producer agreements, distribution agreements, rights transfer agreements, or any other official documentation that confirms you hold the exclusive rights to the content.
 
If you have any such documentation, please provide it in PDF format for our review. Once received, we will carefully assess it as part of our investigation.
 
Thank you for your cooperation, and we look forward to your response.

Ellie

How do I fight back and protect my music from thugs like Sony? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hey guys, kinda lost here.

My channel got terminated after 3 copyright strikes. I submitted a counter notification, but YouTube rejected it saying I didn't explain why it was a mistake or misidentification.

The weird part is, I knew the claimant from Instagram. They used to repost other people's edits with their own watermark, so I was really surprised to see them filing copyright takedowns. After my channel got terminated, they even asked me to give them my Instagram account in exchange for retracting the strikes. I have screenshots of the chats.

Has anyone been through something like this? Should I resubmit my counter notification? Any advice would really help.

I used to be part of an online art community where I became friends with an artist (let's call her Artist A). Artist A was facing heavy public backlash and accusations of tracing/stealing character designs from a very popular creator in the community. To help her out, I designed a brand-new, original character for her to use. Our explicit agreement was that if she ever stopped using the character, ownership would revert back to me.

Eventually, Artist A started designing her own concepts and officially gave the character back to me. I took the design, heavily revamped it, fleshed out a backstory, and integrated it into a major animated passion project that I have been developing for over a decade.

During this time, I was also friends with another person in the circle (Artist B) and a few of her close friends. Things went south when Artist B made romantic advances toward me. I turned her down, which caused her to completely turn on me. She and her friends began posting defamatory "call-out" posts about me online, making up complete lies out of spite.

The drama escalated when one of Artist B's friends claimed that Artist A had "given" her my revamped character to sell, and that she had officially sold it to Artist B.

This makes no sense for a few reasons:

1. Artist A wasn't even active online at the time.
2. Even if Artist A did this, she had no right to give away a character that legally reverted to me.
3. Artist B is specifically claiming ownership of my revamped design, which Artist A never even possessed.
4. Before the fallout, Artist B had explicitly told me how much she loved this specific new design.

This is just the tip of the iceberg with this group, but it's the first major instance of them trying to steal my intellectual property. Has anyone dealt with targeted community theft like this, and what is the best way to protect my project moving forward?

Here is the initial prompt -

[there is an obvious paradox in a robot claiming "fair use" to download millions of works because a robot can't make a fair use argument. It's not a human and human laws don't apply.]

I made a splatoon Oc that I designed, it's based on my own vtuber, (you can probably find it on my page) and I want to make it a vtuber

but could I get sued because of the artstyle?

In this scenario:

Author A. Has developed his project lasting years (1, 5, 10+ more) Finally gets it Published or Distributed. However, another similar themed work, by another Author; Author B. Gets his work Published or Distributed around the time. Maybe, Days, Weeks, Month or Roughly a Year.

What qualifies, a defense for: "Who Plagiarized Who?"

Well known Examples:

Dennis the Menace (USA March 12th 1951) and Dennis the Menace (UK March 17th 1951)

Heathcliff the orange cat (September 3rd 1973) and Garfield (June 19 1978)

However I have more specific questions, maybe going beyond these two examples.

1 - If Author A. Document with Dates, of early and rough, drafts and scripts, drawings and sketches. Even Copyright, Trademark dates with Publishing company or Distributor. -- What does that mean or effect the case?

2 - Author A. Has an early version; intended to be Published or Distributed, BUT. Reasons were canceled. Years later it finally gets released under another company. But Author B already released their work. -- Does this count has purely coincidentally?

3 - Author A accuses Author B, however the evidence is weak; Both have their own archives but is dismissed by the courts. Reasons being too obvious; just a coincidence, or the Evidence. Inspiration, ARE Unique and Originated from different sources to the Author's lives.

4 - If Author A dies, then Author B releases his Work. But the death of Author A/Family Estate/Production can't make a case, aside from Author A's death. BUT Author B never heard or seen A's work and has proof his own creation has it's own sources?

5 (follow up to 4) Author A's Estates and Production Company attacks Author B's personally and work, by using Media; newspapers or social media. And encourages attacks towards B's associates and company.

Depending how "Badly" it gets; from typical social media behavior to Vandailzation behavior (again depending how badly to goes) can Author B and Production sue for what; based on what damages were caused. Whether Author's A death mattered or contributed; weaponized his death or manipulate to encourage certain attitudes or behavior.