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Re: AI generated font using Nano Banana

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> Imagine each Substack owner can make their own font to highlight the essence of their writing. No please, for the love of all that is good and holy, please no

I would also like to see a custom background image. And floating text or bubbles that follows your cursor. And maybe play your favorite song in the background. And a "best friends" list (oh substack already has that basically!)

And blinking too

Re: AI generated font using Nano Banana

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Huh, TIL: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf > Copyright law does not protect typeface or mere variations of typographical ornamentation or lettering. A typeface is a set of letters, numbers, or other characters with repeating design elements that is intended to be used in composing text or other combinations of characters, including calligraphy. Generally, typeface, fonts, and lettering are building blocks o…

Likewise I think it is extremely dubious that models can be copyrighted at all, for the exact same reason you can't copyright a phonebook or database. The entire regime of claiming to release models under various licenses is bullshit, because you can't copyright rote transformations of things either.

It's completely different from a phonebook or database, which are mere compilations.

If something is considered sufficiently transformative, then it can be copyrighted. If you do a bunch of non-trivial processing on a database to generate something new, you can copyright that.

And LLM training is in no universe a "rote transformation". It is incredibly sophisticated, carefully tuned, and results in a final product that could not possibly be more different.

Re: AI generated font using Nano Banana

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise I think it is extremely dubious that models can be copyrighted at all, for the exact same reason you can't copyright a phonebook or database. The entire regime of claiming to release models under various licenses is bullshit, because you can't copyright rote transformations of things either.

It's completely different from a phonebook or database, which are mere compilations . If something is considered sufficiently transformative , then it can be copyrighted. If you do a bunch of non-trivial processing on a database to generate something new, you can copyright that. And LLM training is in no universe a "rote transformation". It is incredibly sophisticated, carefully tuned, and results in a final product…

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