People on another forum says portraits are personal data and use of them is a breach of Art. 6 GDPR Lawfulness of processing. This creates a problem in most European countries. This is a breach of privacy laws, and not a copyright issue.[1]
Not sure how to interpret the local copyright law on this. It can be read both as it is legal (even to just repurpose all kind of images no matter license) and as it is illegal to do it (it would be similar to sampling of previously published music). Seems like you are allowed to train a model, but you can't publish it…
[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:58 PM Ryan Merkley rmerkley@wikimedia.org wrote:
[My comments are my own, and don’t reflect or suggest any official position from WMF]
The NBC story linked below come out about a year ago. Around the same time, when I was CEO at Creative Commons, we published a statement and updated FAQs that attempted to respond to questions being asked about permitted uses and attribution related to the licenses.
CC’s statement (March 2019) is here: https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/13/statement-on-shared-images-in-facial-... https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/13/statement-on-shared-images-in-facial-recognition-ai/ The FAQs are here: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses
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On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
There are several reports of face recognition going mainstream, often in less than optimum circumstances, and often violating copyright and licenses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recog... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secr... https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/01/diversity-in-faces/
In my opinion building a model for face recognition is a derived work, and as such must credit the photographers. That pose a real problem when the photographers counts in the millions and billions. Even a 1px fine print would be troublesome!
What is the official stance on this? Is it a copyright infringement or not, does the license(s) cover the case or not?
John Erling Blad /jeblad
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