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They're suing him for using vaguely cyberpunk ai generated images?
As much as it seems like Musk is trying to make a real life cyberpunk dystopia, this seems a little silly.
They’re suing him for copying scenes shot for shot from their movie after they told him explicitly not to
I just watched his presentation here. He did no such thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVzzNof3wqU
Do you have a video that shows this?
He literally references the movie saying the title as a clearly "Blader Runner" image is on screen. Are you meaning to be obtuse or are you just really that dim?
The subject is copyright infringement. Do try to keep up.
Which is exactly what he did.
I'll assume it's the latter at this point.
There is nothing in Musks presentation that infringes copyright. You're an idiot.
This was productive and I’m sure you convinced a whole lot of people
If Tesla (or the marketing company) asked for permission, then it was more than “vaguely”.
My interpretation is they wanted to use it, got denied, so used a more generic setting instead.
*tried to
It was still close enough that the production company feels they can win with their claim.
Desert wasn't really a cyberpunk setting until BR 2049. Post-apocolyptic sure, MadMax had that stitched up in 1979, but not cyberpunk.