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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

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Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman join in on the fun, tweeting a joke about the trend and changing his profile picture to a Ghibli-style image of what appears to be himself, done up to look like one of the young, wide-eyed protagonists in the studio's movies. Many have uploaded personal photos to be redrawn into a still from a Ghibli movie.

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Lawsuit alleges Capcom ripped off more than 200 copyrighted textures used in DMC and RE4

TechSpot

According to a lawsuit filed last week with a Connecticut federal court, Capcom allegedly used numerous copyrighted images in several Resident Evil and Devil May Cry games. Plaintiff Judy Juracek claims that the game publisher took the pictures from her 1996 artistic reference book called "Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists,

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

There are all sorts of obstacles that are thrown up in front of artists’ Matt Buchholz’s artwork is usually a hit during the holidays. To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement.

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BTS fan Twitter accounts say they’re being targeted by copyright trolls

The Verge

In the past several days, a number of headers, profile pictures, and tweets have disappeared across the wide network of BTS fan Twitter accounts. The spoof websites appear to have been taken down as of this writing, but the account’s header remains suspended “in response to a report from the copyright holder.”.

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How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT?

The Verge

Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is selling a link representing a composite image that features a photograph of herself in front of a print by another artist that contains a photo (of herself) taken by (presumably) yet another artist. The Richard Prince painting is itself a copyright nightmare. Please help me. It’s messy!)

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Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club

The Verge

Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture. But Yuga Labs owns the copyright on its ape images, and PAYC and PHAYC have were booted from OpenSea apparently for violating its rules against copyright infringement. Both projects may be in legally dicey territory.

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Google Images is making it easier to license photo rights

The Verge

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. The change could help publishers, photographers, and artists get in front of their audience, while also helping users find images that they have a right to use.

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