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Mickey Mouse (the Steamboat Willie version) is now public domain on the east coast of the US.

Like 1 January at 5:16 | Open on mastodon.social

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Wonkish

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1 January at 5:19 | Open on mastodon.social

Mike Masnick ✅

If you're on the east coast and want to create public domain mickey's, there's an AI for that. https://huggingface.co/Pclanglais/Mickey-1928

If you're out west, well, live dangerously...

1 January at 5:23 | Open on mastodon.social

Dr. Sbaitso

@mmasnick Those of us on the East Coast will make sure to flood Walt Disney's frozen head with so many mickies he won't see them for another five hours.

1 January at 5:25 | Open on infosec.exchange

Mike Masnick ✅

I mean, come on. This is amazing.

1 January at 5:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Andy

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1 January at 5:33 | Open on techhub.social

Mike Masnick ✅

@andyb a friend sent me this as well:

1 January at 5:37 | Open on mastodon.social

Resuna

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Ironic that they're using copyrighted text and images without a license for their training data.

1 January at 7:41 | Open on ohai.social

Steffen Christensen

@mmasnick I clicked on the link, but it was VERY slow to render. Tomorrow (later today)...

Happy New Year, Mike! ✌️

1 January at 5:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Jesse Janowiak

@mmasnick Here’s wishing everyone a happy H013!

1 January at 8:18 | Open on mastodon.social

Dr Know

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1 January at 5:28 | Open on techhub.social

eik

@mmasnick layman legal hypothetical; if this model were trained on data that was SET to be public domain, but wasn't at the time of the model being created, but the model wasn't released until the sources were public domain.... Is it copyright infringement?

1 January at 5:39 | Open on a2mi.social

Mike Masnick ✅

@eikenberry well, i've been arguing that training a model does not implicate any copyright rights, so I will stand by that and say no. But, others might disagree. Courts will let us know...