New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo

“It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims,” one Redditor wrote.

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I want to clarify that Reddit describes this as a "copyright complaint from OpenAI.com" Logos fall under trademark law, not copyright law, but "copyright complaint" is how Reddit describes it. I asked both companies for clarification but have not yet heard back. The moderators have deleted the logo from the subreddit regardless

@jasonkoebler I asked a friend who's an IP lawyer about this, he said that yes, logos are trademarks, but they'd have no case here on those grounds because nobody'd be confused about whether a subreddit was sponsored by them. A logo is *theoretically* copyrightable but the Copyright Office doesn't like people copyrighting logos and is likely to fight them on it & argue it lacks sufficient original authorship or creativity.

So, weak, but probably the best they could do.

@jasonkoebler Redditors should simply claim that the logo was generated by ChatGPT…
@tymwol @jasonkoebler Not sure anyone would buy that. Here's what DeepAI puked up for me:
@0x575446 @tymwol @jasonkoebler maybe add “looks like a butthole” to your prompt?
@jasonkoebler subredditors just need to claim that their business model relies on breaking copyright, openAI will understand, I’m sure.
@jasonkoebler Too funny, what a world we live in. You can’t even make this stuff up!
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Well well well... How the turn tables... 
@jasonkoebler A company that, despite having the word "open" in it's name is about as open as a locked safe, encased in concrete, and dropped into a black hole.