If you make fan art with AI, who owns it? Under current U.S. law, no one owns the raw AI output, but studios still own every character in it.
In this episode of Tanveer Talks:
• Why 5 Hollywood studios went after Seedance & Midjourney
• Glaze & Nightshade: What anti-scraping tools can and can't protect
• The "Laptop Loophole": Why local AI models don't change copyright law
• Nintendo & convention bans on AI fan art
• The collapse of the Disney/Sora deal & the future of creator licensing
CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Intro: You Own None Of It
(00:25) The Week Hollywood Lost Patience (Seedance & Studio C&Ds)
(02:38) The Ownership Gap (Human Authorship & Thaler)
(05:18) Where Fair Use Breaks (Warhol, ROSS, & Anthropic)
(07:18) Style vs. Character Rights
(08:25) Glaze, Nightshade, & LightShed Bypasses
(10:13) The Laptop Loophole & Local AI Execution
(12:26) Studio Policy & Voice Cloning Laws (Nintendo, Steam, AB 2602)
(14:32) The Money Turn (Disney/Sora Collapse & Music Industry Models)
(17:28) What Fan Creators Should Do Today
(18:56) Final Thoughts
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