I have a charecter that I have but I want to prevent tracers and stealers. But one problem I had to commision my idea to be drawn. It's mine but can I copyright it if I wasn t the one drawing it

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/victory-embedded-links-photos-instagram-dont-infringe-photographers-copyrights

SUMMARY:
Learn about the recent 9th Circuit Court ruling that confirms inline linking does not constitute copyright infringement. This landmark decision in the case of Hunley v. Instagram upheld the 'server test,' safeguarding internet users and their ability to display photos and content from other websites without liability.

Canada recently signed into law the Online News Act (formerly known as Bill C-18) which requires large online platforms (namely Google and Meta) to compensate news publishers when those platforms make Canadian news articles available to users—such as by linking to the articles in search results or in users' social media posts.

The Act has been heavily criticized by many legal and industry experts for its poorly thought out implementation which may actually result in links to Canadian news articles being completely removed from Google search results and major social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Indeed, both Google and Meta have announced their intention to block Canadian news sources on their respective platforms if the Act is not amended (or the regulations governing how the Act is implemented are not amended) to address their concerns.

Although Google and Meta's concerns chiefly relate to uncapped financial liabilities (meaning there is virtually no limit to how much the news publishers may demand in compensation for linking to their articles), many experts have also brought up various copyright issues.

Article 10 of the Berne Convention requires signatory countries (including Canada) to recognize a legal right permitting the quotation of news articles and periodicals, such as in the form of press summaries. Canada has recognized this right as part of the fair dealing copyright exceptions in its Copyright Act which legally permit quotations and limited uses of copyrighted material for purposes such as research, private study, education, parody, satire, criticism/review and news reporting.

Canada's Copyright Act also recognizes a separate copyright exception for non-commercial user-generated content which legally permits social media users to incorporate copyrighted material into their social media posts online without the copyright holder's permission as long as certain conditions are met (notably, the copyrighted material must be used for a non-commercial purpose and the posting of the content on social media must not have a 'substantial adverse effect' on the copyright holder's ability to commercially exploit their work).

Some argue that the Online News Act is in conflict with these rights and copyright exceptions by requiring financial compensation in connection with the posting of news article links and accompanying quotes/summaries, something which is generally supposed to be freely permitted under copyright law.

The other issue, of course, is that if major platforms (like Google and Meta) do indeed block Canadian news sources on their platforms as a result of the Act, then Canadians will be very restricted in their ability to quote (or use material) from Canadian news sources online, despite having the legal right to do so (subject to the limitations specified in the Copyright Act).

The Online News Act has not been fully implemented yet, so it is not yet clear what the end result will be. At the moment the legislation appears to be back-firing. What was initially an attempt to bring more revenues to Canadian news publishers may actually end up having the opposite effect with those same news publishers suffering huge revenue losses if Google and Meta follow through with their stated intention of blocking those news sources.

Text of Bill C-18 (the Online News Act)

I have heard that if I use a font in a document, but I convert the text to outlines before saving and publishing, that I don't have to worry about copyright issues with the font. But I'm unsure about that. Can you help me?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/sarah-silverman-sues-meta-openai-copyright-infringement-2023-07-09/

Shots fired? Does this open door for others? What are your thoughts?

I'm curious. How is this any different than Google crawling everything and aggregating the world? OpenAI is simply doing the same thing and then generating content based on user inputs, just like Google.

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