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Copyright, permission, and creative work
Access is not permissionBeing able to find, upload, transform, or imitate material does not automatically grant permission to use it. Relevant questions include who created the work, the license or contract, the intended use, attribution, commercial context, training-data provenance, and the law that applies.
A team asks an image model to reproduce a living illustrator’s recognizable style for a paid campaign. A safer process uses commissioned or licensed work, a broad visual description, documented rights, and a human originality review.
Copyright and AI rules are evolving and differ by jurisdiction. Generated output may also resemble protected work unexpectedly. Training material should not present unsettled disputes as settled law.
Record the source, creator, license, permission, transformation, attribution, intended audience, and reviewer before publishing.