Watch This Before Selling A.I Art On Etsy Using MidJourney (Avoid Future Lawsuits)

Great video! You just answered all of my questions. I was using a program, although I can't remember which one. It brought back images that seemed to have artist signatures or stamps resembling a signature block, which made me very uncomfortable. Consequently, I stopped using that program. Even though I contacted their helpdesk to inquire about the images and uploaded them for review, they confirmed that the program inserted signatures as needed, which still made me uneasy. Therefore, I believe it's crucial to trust your instincts and avoid using content with copyright or signature type markings.

Stop putting doubt in peoples minds,just go with it.

what if i edit ie add saturation clarity color ect... would that be the same as compiling ie more copyright ?

I would like for the creators pf this video to creat a video related to my following question that nobody seems to know the answer of: If you want to sell Ai image generated images and clipart, what licence should i offer to my clients? Can I offer commercial licence? Or personal one? Pls answer. Thanks!

I do agree that stealing the exact same art from someone is beyond dick move... but to actually be able to sue AI art is kind of long stretched... people will always try to find ways to improve stuff. But specifically in America everything seems to be Sue(able). Cheating or not ethical or not either you move with technology or technology moves with out you.

I was hoping the above video would have addressed my following question but it did not: Can I say on my Etsy Digital Download Pattern for sale page, that "I'm selling the commercial rights along with the digital download pattern"? I create all of my digital patterns using MidJourney. Thanks in advance.

How would anyone know where you made the image?

The lawsuits will fail. You cannot sue someone for getting inspiration from an artwork and then creating a different artwork in a similar style. Midjourny does not copy artworks sufficiently enough to be sued by anyone. Sale away and dont worry about the bs claims that its illegal.

What about adobe express AI images ?

I wish there was an AI that would annihilate amateur presenters who continuously end a sentence with 'right or 'OK''. I just woke up, the batteries ran out of a mouth and I heard Scott......

Get to the point already! Geez!

I'm literally taking pics and editing them, also inserting my art into Midjourney to get more rendered art. Midjourney is requiring money from you while you train their generator for them, and they also take art which has nothing to do with them to train it. They should charge less, and the idea they are the ones who give you copyrights is bullshit. Even in their terms and conditions they mention that some of their ridiculous terms are not enforceable. Luckily other generators are catching up and will be giving them competition.

I dont use midjourney , i use another AI thats just as good and it says all images are mine to use as i please, i created them, so i have 0 worries.

You certainly are not attorneys with all the waffle any judge would have kicked you out of court I found the answer in 10 seconds with google
Just have a membership you can use anything you find on there midjourney is very clear on this you can take any image thats on there and use it commercially.

You are commissioning AI to create the art. The same way you commission a designer to make you a logo. How much you pay depends on subscription or designer's fee. Once you pay the designer for the logo, it is yours to do as you please.

read the license agreement on midjourney, it's about a paragraph... very clear...better than watching this video for 25 mins...

Sorryy, my english is not so good, I'm not shure I understood, is legal so sell AI generated art or not?

It's like creating a new song, and using autotune to make yourself sound better because your voice isn't great. People say that's 'cheating'. Songs are a collection of chords and scales, most of which can be found countless times in other songs, but unless you are reproducing a large section, it's a different song, IMHO.

I’m a graphic designer who is obsessing over AI. AI is only as good as the person behind it. I encourage everyone interested in AI to dabble with it.

Imagine the poor fool pooling his resources in some time wasting effort to sue someone over midjourney ai generated art...😂

It’s not cheating. It can take hours of trying diffreent text entries to get exactly what you are looking for. Art is only successful if people like it and are willing to buy it. So I see that the skill set is different to that of an actual artist. The only thing I would stay away from are stuff like Disney.

The big law suit is based on it being other peoples work originally, and applications which do this ... have used the clause of material is available on the net being free generally but it's based on 'fair' use. So it isnt so much what artists/designers are doing with it now, but the means the AI company has acquired the material. Theyre not paying for the use if it.

Yes and yes.

So if you went to art school for 4 years, paid $100K+ in tuition to learn drawing skills and design fundamentals, practiced for decades to perfect your artistic ability, it's okay to take your artwork and mix it up with another person's artwork in minutes, then call it your own creation and profit from it? Sounds very unethical to me. Eventually there will be no original work for AI to steal from because artists that put in the hardwork will not be incentivized to do so.

Lol Ai images don't sell well at all at Etsy at all 😂😂.

Let me just ask people here whom did Mozart give a permission to copyright and play his music in orchestras that making millions and he died penniless? Or maybe Vincent Van Gogh? Why so many leeches are making millions out of his art today?

If you have an MJ premium subscription you’re good.

you guys don't know anything.

Bottom line: Make sure Midjourney creates the images 100% from your prompts & make sure you're paying for one of their subscriptions. Then you can use the images for commercial purposes.

People shouldn't type name of artiste or well knowed creation cause they should get like royal-tee for that in my opinion.

But we can't blame someone who use a regular prompt & get as result a copycat of a style we didn't aware of before.

Develloper who collect data should ask/ paid for this kind of authorization to avoid theese legal issue.

If I use the MidJourney subscription service, that lets me own the images, to create Inspiration images and turn them into coloring book pages, drawing my own lineart from the generated images, is it legal to do that and sell them? Would I need to list MidJourney as a creator or resource? I can draw but an AI image as a resource I can trace would make the process much faster.

Wouldn't most photography then be unable to be copyrighted? All I'm doing is holding a piece of technology and pressing a button. I'm not creating the image, the camera is. The person is in control of the camera but with technology today I can take 50 pictures in seconds, capturing something that I could not with older cameras.

Today, you don't need to know that much to operate a camera and take stunning photos. I have captured really nice photos with a disposable.

And what about companies who use ai to create things that humans could never? Like new forms in car suspensions and body design?

And everyone is talking about these ai systems using billions of images for references.

How do you think humans learn a skill? They copy from those before. An artist will look at art and find what they like. A singer/ musician will listen to other music and find inspiration.

When I write most of my inspiration comes from movies and books I've seen and read.

If people could not use other works of art for inspiration there might only be a small handful of creative people in the world.

I think this is more of a tool for those who have ideas but not the skill to do it themselves. Or the money to pay an artist.

I just think that the biggest focus is on art when no one is talking about how many jobs in driving, retail and warehouses that are going to be lost in the next 5-10 years.

You are using the terms copyright and trademark as interchangeable they are two completely different areas of law and cannot be used interchangeably

Can we stop putting a clip from the middle to the beginning of the video? It’s so annoying. 🤨

Here's my two cents on the subject. If someone used AI to alter a picture or make something that uses copywritten material (for instance Disney, DC, Picaso...to name a few) that should be illegal. BUT if you're having an AI, make original content then it should be legal and here's why. If I have a friend whose artistic draw a picture for me and they say "if you sell this, you can keep the money" that's legal so if an AI company says a person can sell the original content that it makes then people should be able to do it. Artists may not like it because these people are not using a pencil, paint, for instance but that's just their opinion. If I tell an AI to make a cartoon cat picture, it's me giving the AI the idea that's in my head. I may not be drawing it myself, but it is my idea. A friend of mine once said "Ideas don't mean anything, it making them come to life that means something." If someone doesn't know how to draw or code and they can use AI as a tool to get their ideas out there, then their ideas do mean something.

So as long as people aren't plagiarizing, using copywritten material or making deepfakes, using AI to help bring ideas to reality shouldn't be illegal.

All of the images generated in these spaces are present for everyone to view and download (save) in the chat; unless done with stealth. Can you use the images that were already created, that someone else prompted, thats present in the chat? The only reason I think you can, is because anyone can save or download the images…

So beyond the painting called "Blue", do all other artists that paint have to make their own Canvas? Grow their own hemp, to then break it down to make their own fibers & spin their own yarn, to then build their own Loom in order to make the canvas, and then grow their own trees for the wood to make the frame, and stretch their hand made canvas over their self-grown tree wood of the frame before they then can go into all the details of making their own paint, and grooming their own horses to make their own paintbrush all before making their crappy blue painting worth almost nothing?
Why not?

In the physical world, almost Every store buys inventory from a wholesaler, marks up the price, and resells it. Walmart doesn't create anything they sell, nor does Amazon. And if you don't have a creative bone in your body you can always hire someone else to create your artwork. How are you to know if they did it all by hand or if they had AI do it? You probably wouldn't know, but you'd mark it up and sell it and you'd have a perfectly legal right to do that!

Lawyers and politicians, They are the problem with everything!
Get rid of all of them and the world would be better off, A LOT! ;))

It’s pretty funny to hear you talk about dog’s house, as French word for dog’s house is « niche » thus the origin of the word, maybe.

Summary: don’t try to actually go copy someone’s work. Ex. Don’t use an artist’s name in the prompt, Bob Ross, Thomas Kinkade instead use the word for the style wet on wet acrylic, inspirational painting, etc.

Actually, I read online reviews of MidJourney before using it to sell AI art on Etsy. After reading the reviews of MidJourney, I decided not to use it.

tldr: its legal

Was beginning to think scott was mute. Loll takes too long to get to point. Intro is repetitive and too many words used throughout. Lost me at some point. Sorry thought u might like to know a truncated intro is way better

What AI is doing is nothing else what we do, and its call taking inspiration of something. If you as a kid have drow a house, its becouse you saw with your eyes a house, and put it on paper. House owner or better say someone who build it couldt say, now is your art illegal couse its made based on their house you saw.

the problem is taking existing artwork and putting it in the AI system itself without the artist consent and compensation.

bloody hell this guy talks so much. get to the point for gods sake.

Key point: stay away from likeness. Create unique works. For instance, a prompt for a cat drinking tea with glasses on the beach. NO: Person, places, things, businesses etc. Laws state that AI art is not copyrightable. It has no human contribution. It made by algorithms. NOT an attorney do you own research.😮

Here’s my quandary; regarding copyright and trademarks.

Prior to AI, I could go to a plethora of DIY sites, and through a few clicks create a logo and some art work.

I would then be given the option of purchasing exclusive rights to these pieces, as in the copyright and to create a trademark.

NO human made these.

I could also buy a font and exclusive rights to it. Again, no human made the font.

In either of these cases the machine intelligence that did hadn’t risen to the level of AI, but the machine definitely created them.

I could snap a cell phone picture, and apply automated filters in photoshop, even set up a macro to run them.

Again I’d get copyright, even though I wasn’t even looking when I took the picture.

That is, the phone took the picture and decided how to compose it, with zero involvement from me.

I think our elderly powers that be are using oil paintings and the 1700’s as a comparison here.

IMO using digital tools such as photoshop illustrator is much easier than writing the prompts necessary to produce precisely what you want using AI such as midjourney.

While part of me am glad they are placing the art in public domain, I don’t get why these tools should be treated any different than those available in the last 30 years.

This would change I suppose once we get to “millennium man” level AI, but for now these are just tools.

I think the copyright office has a total lack of understanding of the subject here, just like they did when the internet was made available.

Thoughts?