Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:49:50 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2025-06-14 19:05:53 +0000, Tim Merrigan said:
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On 6/14/2025 8:28 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:00:53 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 6/13/2025 11:24 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:49:55 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
 

"Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images"
 
<https://www.google.com/search?q=midjourney+"a+bottomless+pit+of+plagiarism">
 
PKB??

 
The link is to a Google search result. "PKB" does not occur on it, at
least not here.
 
Perhaps it would help if you specified the actual article (there are
at least four, possibly more) in which "PKB" occurs.
 
Most of what I am finding for "PKB" is from chemistry. I have doubts
about that being relevant.

 
PKB ->  Pot. Kettle. Black.

 
That at least makes sense. If Disney/Pixar is in the plagiarism
business, that is.
 
Not that I am expressing an opinion about whether or not Midjourney's
AI is plagiaristic, BTW.

 
Disney has long been in the business of taking old classics and
copyrighting them as their own.  Many of them not technically
plagiarism, since the originals were never copyrighted.  Snow White and
Cinderella, to name two off the top of my head.
 
Winny the Pooh, they bought the rights to, I don't know about Pinocchio
or James and the Giant Peach, though since Dahl was still alive when
they made JatGP, I assume there was some sort of negotiation.

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Winnie the Pooh itself is no longer copyright (expired in 2022), so
Disney doesn't own those now. Hence the idiotic "Blood and Honey"
horror movie version made recently. Disney does still own the copyright
to their version of Winnie the Pooh though.
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Similarly, Disney doesn't own the copyrights to the older stoires of
Cinderlla, Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, etc. Disney only owns the
cpyrights for their own versions of those.
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Roald Dahl refused to sell the movie rights for any of his works after
the "saccharine, sappy, and sentimental" mistreatment of the Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory movie with Gene Wilder.

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And with good reason.

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After he died, his
widow sold the James and the Giant Peach movie rights to Disney (she
offered them to other movie companies as well, but accepted Disney's
agreement) - she said Roald would have liked the movie, which is
doubtful. In 2021 the Dahl family sold the copyrights for all his works
to Netflix in 2021 for around US$500million.

Here's hoping Netflix does a good job with them.
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