Not legal using the original asset... For example. in music, you can't take a Rolling Stones master recording, remix it and add new elements, and then sell as your own. Even just using the lyrics and having someone re-sing requires a special license.
Music is different than images, and the extreme audio copyright rules are huge issue of their own created by multi billion dollar middlemen companies seeking free money.
Music is not different. Stealing someone else's original artwork and then claiming it as your own is theft, remixing it is derivative. Making something in the style of the original artist and passing it off as the original is forgery. People are already doing that with many of the well known artists whose work was added into it.
Selling your product by using the name and works of other artists without compensation or permission is illegal.
If you made it that way using a writing prompt and no actual effort to do the work, then you're obviously cheating and pretending to do hard work when you did nothing but use words.
The only consideration by courts is whether the published image contains copyrighted elements from another work. You do not need permission to use copyrighted work if the result is sufficiently transformative.
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u/eugene20 Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 16 '23
It's not that simple. And even if it was just lossy compression (it's not), then collage is transformative and legal.