Reflection On Week 5: Intellectual Property, Copyright, Open Licensing, and more
This week we looked at things such as open education, copyright, licensing, and artificial intelligence.
My experiences with copyright:
As a University student I have used a lot of other peoples information when doing things like using theories or frameworks to draw conclusions from whatever I am studying. For example, I frequently use and cite journal articles to provide support and evidence behind the things that I say in my assignments or projects.
When it comes to ownership of material, I think of a time when I wish I had kept full ownership of one of my videos. I had made a viral video and many companies had reached out to repost it and give me credit so I gave permission to some of them. One of those companies was barstool sports and fast forward a year I have a company reaching out to me offering $1000 USD to use my video in a commerical. I was super excited because I had only received a tag as credit from previous companies. I went back and read the agreements with each company and when it came to barstool sports it turned out that If I gave the video out to this company to use in their commercial, I could face legal problems. I tried reaching out to them and was ignored everytime and ultimately was not able to say that this new company could use my video. I lost out on $1000 USD and this experience opened my eyes to the importance of giving credit but also keeping ownership and understanding every aspect of any agreements with other parties.
AI and Open Education
AI content is seen as open because it cannot be copyrighted and is seen as being in the public domain. When you input something that is copyrighted into AI and have it change it, it is considered a derivative work and needs copyright licensing. When looking at my experiences with AI and creation, I have only ever used it in a way like David Wiley said calling AI a “more knowledgeable other” that can assist your learning. I have used AI to elaborate on ideas at a range and speed that enhances my learning and creations significantly.
I wanted to try making a derivative work with AI and here is how it went:
Starting Image
I chose an artwork called “The Blue Boy” by Thomas Gainsborough and will be using CHATGPT 4.0 to transform it into an anime style image that is similar to the famous “Studio Ghibli” style.
Prompt: “Make Ghibli Effect”
Output:
The AI worked perfectly and if I were to publish this it is derivative work and I would have to credit Thomas Gainsborough.
One other thing to add is that there has been a lot of fuss around if using ChatGPT 4.0 to turn your images into Ghibli Style images is copyright infringement in itself as you are technically taking Studio Ghibli’s style of animation.