• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Setting the shittiness aside, once again a horseshit patent award. This is not a novel or innovative idea. It’s a stupid fucking limitation on others if entertained.

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        10 months ago

        An AI image is a result of a technology, which falls under copyright.

        A method to generate AI audio is the technology itself, which falls under patent law.

        These are two entirely different things that should never be conflated.

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          10 months ago

          Exactly. You can patent the way you integrate this tech into a game, as well as the process for how the audio is generated, but you cannot patent the audio itself or the implementation since those fall under copyright. Use of an implementation would need a patent grant, but use of the audio does not.

          Patents and copyright are two sides of the same coin, and as such are related but are completely separate entities. Patents cover ideas and processes, copyright covers implementations and products.