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Art created by a generative AI platform (like Stability or Midjourney) is potentially copyrightable. The fact that an AI platoform was used does not, by itself, prevent the resulting art from receiving copyright protection. However, the art is only copyrightable if the human artist’s prompt contained sufficient expressive input.


I imagine you'll get into issues: If I take the original prompt and seed, but very mildly tweak the prompt, would I be violating copyright?


It depends on how mild the tweak is, and perhaps how different the result will be. I expect copyright protection for AI art will be very narrow, and likely only protect against direct copy/paste, or near-identical copies.


i believe the USA has the most lawyers per capita of any country, and also (arguably) the world's strongest economy


I think this says more about the virtues of the American legal system, and less about the efficiency of lawyers or any trend in the quality of judgments relative to the standard.


https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/05/359830235/....

>Here is another telling statistic: Brazil has more law schools — some 1,240 — than the rest of the world combined. And they have turned out some 800,000 lawyers — which means there are more lawyers per capita in Brazil than in the U.S.


People in Brazil go to law school not to be a lawyer, but to be able to work for the government, since many government jobs require you a Bachelor in Law.


Israel has the most, followed by the US https://twitter.com/pankajghemawat/status/575654688491708416


That's what you believe, is there evidence to support your two claims? I don't think HN should be a place where people state their "beliefs" about quantitative statements without providing a single number or citation.


It's not exactly breaking news the US by leads the world in GDP - still almost double China despite having a fraction of the population.

Per capita the US is high but not quite at the top - but almost all of those are small financial powerhouses like Switzerland or Macau.


Chinese GDP is now around 3/4 US GDP due to the current Recession.


THESE PEOPLE DESERVE CREDIT:

- Prof. Jonathan Askin - @jaskin - runs the clinic, and trusted us to try this experiment.

- Maegan Fuller - @mafuller21 - did the lion's share of research and writing. Brilliant and dedicated student. She just took the bar exam.

- Jorge Torres - @jorgemtorres - Guy who actually knows patent litigation. Too bad he dropped out of law to be a VC. Pitch him :-)


The judge crossed out the 'with' and wrote in 'without' prejudice on the note.

Does that mean that if the troll tries this on with someone else, this case can't be cited? Just wondering.


I guess not: the troll dropped the case, there was no judicial decision, so there is nothing to cite ?


No, in general the with/without prejudice language in legal rulings means that a reshaped and resubmitted case on the same issues wouldn't/would be welcomed back for another hearing.


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