AI generators borrow from thousands of years of human creativity to produce new artwork. But this can also be an issue: who owns the rights to these artworks? Legislation is still playing catch-up, but some regions have already provided some guidance. According to the US copyright office, you can’t copyright AI images as they are not original works of authorship by a human being. But that doesn’t mean you can just use them however you…
As NFT prices crashed in late 2022, a quiet revolution was taking place, and soon projects like MoonBirds had a commercial change of heart, announcing that they would offer their assets under a CC0 license. All the assets would become part of the public domain, making it so that anyone could build upon them by creating derivatives, or even selling merch. MoonBirds had to deal with backlash as the move had far-reaching consequences on commercialization…
Do you love free images? We do! And so do the creators who use Creative Commons images in their projects. But you might be a bit uneasy about free stuff. Did Ted Hughes not state that nothing is free and everything has to be paid for?Some creators share their original images for free out of pure kindness, such as Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann. He famously sold an NTF for $69 million but has primarily released…
