Remove Artist Remove Arts Remove License
article thumbnail

Napster just sold for $207 million

Engadget

Napster holds numerous licenses to stream millions of songs, which is what made it an attractive prospect to Infinite Reality. Current Napster CEO Jon Vlassopulos says that the purchase will allow artists to create crazy environments that are really only limited by their imaginations. . "The most legendary collab?!

Music 121
article thumbnail

Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art

The Verge

Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. Last year, the digital artist Beeple sold a series of works for more than $3.5 Last year, the digital artist Beeple sold a series of works for more than $3.5

Arts 136
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

TechCrunch

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.

License 98
article thumbnail

How artists and scientists see tree branches similarly

Fast Company Tech

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. This science of trees inspired my colleague and me to measure the scaling of tree branch diameter in art.

Artist 123
article thumbnail

I want to float in the void of this car’s paint job

The Verge

The rights to create art with Vantablack were granted exclusively to one artist, Anish Kapoor. Kapoor’s license and Vantablack’s other use in the military and aerospace industries have kept it out of reach of the average artist or car enthusiast, giving its visual effect an even more alluring quality.

Job 143
article thumbnail

7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Microsoft Office Clip Art Collection – This collection includes a combination of photos and illustrations and if you ever used the clip art option in PowerPoint, these will look familiar.

Images 139
article thumbnail

What happens when a virtual streamer doesn’t own her body?

The Verge

She commissioned it from an artist for $5,000 and even kept the receipts as proof. It wasn’t until this month that she ran into a problem: the artist, alleging that Melody owed him money, filed a copyright complaint claiming that she didn’t actually own her body — he did. and “Is Hentai Art?”

Virtual 122