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SCheeseman
Apr 23, 2003

SpacePig posted:

They're using his image and reproducing his voice, though. If the current stuff about copyright and llms comes down in favor of the copyright holders, then they absolutely have a case. That stuff is all "trained on" his copyrighted work.

A lot of parody and satire, sketch comedy in particular, uses the image and names of real life people without permission. The marketing and content of the special make that very clear that it's not actually George Carlin but an facsimile generated by an AI.

Except that isn't true, it's just more storytelling. Chad Kultgen wrote it, the fictional AI is a framing device used as part of a meta narrative. This could be seen as a lie, but then so could pro wrestling.

There's unanswered questions about how far parody and satire can allow for the use of celebrity likeness, but this case won't answer the copyright question.

SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jan 28, 2024

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