Copyright - a matter of self-respect

In recent days, the story about the copyright of a press photo capturing a moment during the war in Vietnam has heated up with many controversial opinions. The decision on right and wrong belongs to the people involved, but this story once again shows that the issue of intellectual property rights is always a concern.

In our country today, not only photography but also other art fields such as painting, literature, music ... copyright issues are still a burning issue. The situation of plagiarism in music, plagiarism in literature, plagiarism in photos, imitation of paintings... still appears here and there, even in prestigious art competitions, placed next to works created from serious artistic labor.

Recently, artist D.Q., whose watercolor paintings are currently the best-selling, was caught up in a plagiarism scandal when one of his works was discovered to resemble a scene from a Vietnamese movie.

Director ML, who discovered this coincidence, said that the scene was conceived and built by the film crew through a combination of antiques and CGI technology (computer-generated imagery), and was completely unreal in real life, so there could be no coincidence of the same thing. The thin line between artistic inspiration and imitation is always a hot topic in the creative world.

However, this lawsuit is almost unprecedented in the industry (suspected plagiarism between a painting and a movie scene). And this case once again shows that our laws still have many loopholes, making it difficult to determine right and wrong in cases like the one mentioned above.

In the context of the explosion of technology, especially when artificial intelligence (AI) participates in the process of artistic creation, the issue of copyright becomes more complicated. A simple question is, if a painting is created by AI, who owns the copyright, the AI ​​technology software or the person who created the command for the AI ​​to execute?

And art is different from science and technology in that the author sends emotions as messages to the public. Do works created regularly according to such a technological process have enough emotions to touch the hearts of the recipients?

New problems are constantly arising, the law sometimes cannot keep up, at this time, the attitude and self-respect of artists are key. Choose to behave kindly with each other, with the work and with the public to be worthy of the two words artist. Because if not, they will be no different from a technological software, only knowing how to copy and can be replaced at any time.

BLUE

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/ban-quyen-chuyen-cua-long-tu-trong-post796808.html