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April 4, 2023
質問

Theft of name and sale of images

  • April 4, 2023
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Hello! I have a problem and it is that someone is using my name and selling images created by me with Midjourney, what can I do? thank you so much!

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Participant
April 5, 2023

Thanks to everyone for your replies! The fact that bothers me is that this person uses my Midjourney username, he pretends to be me. I know that Midjourney's creations are not copyrighted, my images are in more places, but not with my name.

Legend
April 5, 2023

You haven't told us anything about why you ask this in Adobe Stock contributor forum. Are you a stock contributor? Are the copied photos sold by a second stock contributor? How could they have the same username?

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2023

If you're a Stock Contributor and find your assets are being sold by another Stock contributor, you can file an official infringement complaint below.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-report-suspected-misuse-of-your-intellectual-property.html

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
George_F
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2023

There are a few things that are unclear to me here.  Are you an Adobe Stock Contributor?  What platform or website are the alleged stolen images being sold on?

 

Adobe Stock has partner sites that display our stock images, but we only see revenue when a sale is made.  It's worth at least ruling this out as a potential cause.

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Yun15
Participant
April 4, 2023

Yea your images are not protected under copyright; So much so that I will take them right now and sell them as nft's. You don't really own them because you didn't really create them. What you can do is use ai art as inspiration for art that you actually create. 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2023

I'm not giving legal advice because I don't practice law.  From an ethics standpoint, it sucks. But based on U.S. Copyright, your Midjourney assets can't be protected.  Only content created by a human can be protected.

 

If you keep Generative AI & text prompts in public view, anyone can take them and use for their own purpose.  It's the same with images in public domain.  There's not much you can do about it.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Legend
April 4, 2023

I read there is no copyright on AI created images, so - if so - this would seem entirely legal.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2023

I suppose we could also see duplicate AI images if the creators just happened to enter the same text prompts. After all, how many different varieties of "cats in roller skates" can a Generative AI tool generate?

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2023

Are these images that you've previously successfully uploaded to Adobe? Have you uploaded them elsewhere?

Jill C., Forum Volunteer