For the defense

Post #442,992 by rcareaga 4/27/23 8:05:13 PM 4/27/23 8:05:13 PM Reply	For the defense 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,
Post #442,994 by drook 4/28/23 12:17:38 AM 4/28/23 12:17:38 AM Reply	The thing about "in the style of ..." Movies and music that are blatant ripoffs sell very well. "Fine art" not so much. Unless you get something authenticated, because as you said, who "really" produced it is infinitely more important than the work itself. -- Drew
Post #443,006 by crazy 4/28/23 5:42:33 PM 4/28/23 5:42:33 PM Reply	I have a Greg cherry hologram It's kind of like this but better. https://youtu.be/a6qGaQ-_0F8 Mine is a pair of binoculars sitting on a tree looking into a rainforest. In the distance in the lenses are a snake and a parrot. It has to be placed in the perfect shadow box with a single point of light above it at the perfect angle in order to be seen. It is one of a kind. It has infinite value to me. It has some market value that somebody might pay for it. His method of creating these things is lost at the moment. It is probably the only thing I've kept through the last 20 moves. When I first bought it I had to put it on layaway because it costs way too much. But it took a couple of months of multiple payments before he was ready to hand it over to me. The next week the shop was closed and if I had taken another week to pay I would not have been able to get it. There's history associated with it. There's history associated with the creator and the stages that his art and production capabilities went through. Would a perfect modern copy be worth just as much to me? Not a chance.
Post #443,018 by drook 5/1/23 10:19:58 AM 5/1/23 10:19:58 AM Reply	But if someone could reproduce it ... The price would be based on what new users would pay, not on how much you value yours. -- Drew

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