Interesting! There's a difference though to me: if the building has a giant poster of a popular IP on it, afaik it doesn't give the photographer any rights to use that IP in their creations. I see enough series shot in Vancouver that avoid including things like that or keep it blurred out if it can't be out of frame...
Content on websites has copyright in some form, just because it isn't behind a paywall/accountwall doesn't make it public domain.
But the AI didn't reproduce it, the AI "read" it and incorporated it into its knowledge base. I can read & cite all the academic papers I want - I can even reproduce their text verbatim, as long as I properly cite them.
Content on websites has copyright in some form, just because it isn't behind a paywall/accountwall doesn't make it public domain.