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0 pointstiborsaas3y ago0 comments

You can also read the HP series and write summaries and reviews about each book as wodenokoto. You can probably create HP looking artwork and write stories that could fit into the HP universe. You can't call any of your work HP. This sounds obvious, but if it's done by a machine then some people think it's a different question.

I can write code to get a list of characters in the book, get their page numbers analysed and draw graphs to help me create my own version. Am I breaking copyright laws? Most likely not.

It's a truly grey area which lawmakers never saw coming.

I believe if events unfold well we'll see and treat AI tools to be like sharp knives eventually. It will be up to the user what they do with it.

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cycomanic3y ago

>You can also read the HP series and write summaries and reviews about each book as wodenokoto. You can probably create HP looking artwork and write stories that could fit into the HP universe

IIRC there have been lawsuits about exactly that. A person wrote (and published) some fandom in the Harry Potter universe (without Harry Potter in it IIRC), he lost the case I believe. This is similar to the fact that you cannot make your own comic books with Mickey Mouse (unless your operation is small enough that it flies under the radar), the universe/characters are in fact copyrighted.

tiborsaasOP3y ago

Probably they used too much reference, I wasn't implying that the universe itself is not protected. But writing something similar that would appeal the fans should be okay.

int_19h3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter

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