I made this using generative ai of Harley Quinn in the style of Harley from the "Harley Quinn" tv series... Great if you want to see a character from something sneeze, but terrible for copyright and whatnot.
As long as you don't wish to monetize or distribute it, you're in the clear, but for those who
do, they might do well to protect themselves under the "parody and fair use" clause of copyright law.
"To qualify as a legal parody, the work must, at least in part, comment on or criticize the original work, as determined by the four-factor fair use test: purpose and character, nature of the original copyrighted work (i.e. fiction vs. nonfiction, such as autobiographical information, courtroom dockets, or medical records), amount of source material employed in the derivative work, or its effect on the market at large. 1
Copyright law
can be pretty sticky to negotiate. This video explains it somewhat.
In 2022 screenings of the satirical indie film
The Peoples' Joker--whose content makes
HQ look like
The Big Comfy Couch--were cancelled for fear of issues of violating Warner Bros. and its subsidiaries' stated copyrights.
2 It has since been made available on several streaming platforms.
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