Is it a Good Idea to Allow People to Sell Artificial Intelligence Art? Zazzle lets AI Art to be Used to Make Decorated Gifts... T-shirts, Coffee Cups, Hats... I know because I do it on my store!

A more troubling question is "Should I publish AI art for sale?" I certainly can voluntarily choose to NOT publish AI art for sale... The only thing that soothes my conscience is the fact that I donate all royalties to The Save the Redwood League or PBS... I don't think that artificial intelligence is a good idea but... 

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For your information: Zazzle has strict copyright infringement rules and will simply remove a product if it violates their standards... And they will email you a notice that says: "Stop doing that!" - If you feel you've been banished unfairly... You can ask for an appeal... But I've never asked for an appeal because they were obviously correct...

I was selling embroidered slogan hats that said "Make America Greta Again" - and they said... "Don't do that... You're making money off of someone else's name."- So I stopped doing that... I see their point... If Greta Thunberg wanted to sell hats she would get her own Zazzle store...

It made me question the whole idea about copyright infringement... Obviously if a picture has been paid for by taxpayers there's no copyright... That means official photos by NASA... Pictures of politicians... But not newspaper pictures of politicians... The flag is OK... Logos of government agencies: CIA, FBI, DOJ, DOD, DARPA, NSA and EIEIO...

Forbidden Mickey Mouse art...

Copyright owned by the Walt Disney Corporation...

Recently the copyright expired on the Mickey Mouse cartoon of him as a captain of a boat... So I don't know if I can sell this art or not! I think I'll test the system by making a t-shirt... Of course, I won't include any words on my page like: Mickey Mouse... Rainbow Mickey... Walt... Disney... Epcot... So the only way that Zazzle will know that I'm doing art that looks like Mickey Mouse is if they employ a Human or Google to look at the picture... 

*AI Overview*

This image appears to be a digital graphic combining a rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse silhouette with the American flag background. [1, 2]It is often referred to as "Rainbow Mickey" or associated with Disney Pride designs.

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On January 1, 2024, the original 1928 version of Mickey Mouse from the animated short Steamboat Willie officially entered the U.S. public domain. This milestone followed 95 years of copyright protection, which was extended multiple times by corporate lobbying. However, the expiration comes with strict legal limits that still protect the modern character. [1, 2, 3]

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