I solicited Midjourney to yield up a poster for the film/TV series Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy as though René Magritte had been commissioned to produce one. Here’s what I got. Magritte never painted that, but an AI, riffing on his style, generated something like he might have done given such a charge (and I’ll bet you a beet that as of today I am the only human being who has ever solicited a like output). I cleaned up the image somewhat, and added the typography. Is it “mine?” Are Max Ernst’s collages “his?” I wonder what the Copyright Office might rule today in the latter case.
Anyway, my own retirement livelihood does not depend on sales of Cinema Paronomasia or That’s Entertainment!, so I can take a lazily disinterested view of these matters. I do, though, think that the law will have some catching up to do in the coming years.
cordially,
Anyway, my own retirement livelihood does not depend on sales of Cinema Paronomasia or That’s Entertainment!, so I can take a lazily disinterested view of these matters. I do, though, think that the law will have some catching up to do in the coming years.
cordially,