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rickydrollyesterday at 3:58 PM1 replyview on HN

I wonder if Nano Banana spits out an image and I copy it by hand into a different medium like acrylics, chalk, or charcoal. Does a manual transcription suddenly render the image worthy of copyright?

This also raises the meta question: how much does an image need to change to acquire a new copyright? For example, if you change the Last Supper to include two fat Jesuses on either side of the single skinny Jesus, is that enough?


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ThrowawayTestryesterday at 7:33 PM

A human couldn't recreate it perfectly in a different medium, thus you are adding human creativity to it, thus copyrightable.

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