AI and Copyright With Rebecca Blake
Rebecca Blake is a professional graphic designer with more than 30 years of experience. As the Design Director at Optimum Design & Consulting, she leads the creation of original graphic design, including logos, website interfaces, brochures, publications, mail, and advertising.
Beyond her professional endeavors, Rebecca has dedicated herself to championing the rights and concerns of visual artists. Since September 2016, she has served as Advocacy Liaison for the Graphic Artists Guild, where she monitors upcoming legislation on copyrights and writes articles on design for the Guild’s news blog.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Rebecca Blake’s early career and education
What is top of mind in the graphic design industry right now?
Managing AI in the world of professional artists
The role fair use plays in creating art with AI
What qualifies as a transformative use of copyrighted material
How AI collects and uses its massive data sets
Why the defense of “non-expressive copying” is flimsy
The long-term effects of AI on ownership
What is and isn’t copyrighted when using AI?
Dealing with out-of-date copyright law
In this episode…
The elephant in the room for most industries is AI. It is especially true for artists since copyright and unique abilities are valued above all. Pressing questions concerning fair use, the future of art, and the effect on creatives everywhere need answers. Many people are weighing in, but few are qualified on both the artistic and business sides of the equation.
Rebecca Blake has represented artists and worked on designs for more than two decades. She is not only familiar with the impact of AI but is actively working through the implications of the experience to contextualize this new moment. So what can concerned or interested artists learn about this burgeoning technology?
In this episode of the Pixel Retentive Podcast, Carl Cleanthes and Ross Ciuppa are joined by Rebecca Blake, an Advocacy Liaison at The Graphic Artist Guild, to talk about AI and how it relates to artists. They discuss how copyright affects AI, the four Cs of fair use, what counts as transformative, and how to use it properly. They also touch on Rebecca’s most valued project and how she got to her current position in the industry.
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