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Blogger defeats photographer's copyright claim

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/06/blogger-defeats-photographers-copyright-claim-sokolskyfilm-v-messiah.htm
28•speckx•1h ago

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tancop•1h ago
another day another reason why copyright should be for commercial use only (yes that means piracy will be legal). you can throw out entire categories of bad faith cases. art stealing companies still have to pay up and its easier to get what you deserve as an artist when the courts not filled with a backlog of useless low value claims.
kmoser•1h ago
Lots to comment on but this stood out:

> “A lawsuit like this heightens the demand for Generative AI replacements.”

Most generative AI corpora were arguably trained on copyrighted material, making the output potentially infringing.

FanaHOVA•1h ago
There is plenty of precedent being written here. It does not seem to be the case at all for the average use of this technology.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922

rectang•47m ago
Even if the specific image being infringed were not in the corpus, it's possible that a court would return a judgment of copyright infringement.

Consider the case where someone deliberately prompts the AI to build a facsimile image and the AI does a creditable job after some tweaking.

ralph84•28m ago
Except everyone who has tried to argue that in court has lost.
arjie•15m ago
> I was struck by the fact that the blog post had 43 views. With such low stakes, how did this case make it to federal court and reach summary judgment???

Yeah, fascinating that a 43-view blog post would go all the way to the federal court like this. Surely the plaintiff often has people give up and pay because they fear the case? Otherwise the economics of chasing down copyright violations of this scale surely don't make sense.

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