OpenAI’s Ghibli-style art output should be challenged for copyright theft

Copyright protection is a negative right. Nobody can copy your work without getting your permission. If OpenAI did not get Studio Ghibli’s nod to train its LLM on the studio’s original, hand-drawn artwork style, we need to ask whether it is copyright infringement.

28 March, 202512 min
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OpenAI’s Ghibli-style art output should be challenged for copyright theft

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