Artist Prohibits AI-Generated Derivatives of All Published Works

Summary

Artist and webcomic author David Revoy says he will add an “AI derivation prohibited” notice alongside the Creative Commons licenses for his published art, stories, lore, and comics. The policy applies to Pepper&Carrot, licensed CC BY, and MiniFantasyTheater, licensed CC BY-SA, and is also intended to cover earlier works as the update is backported. Revoy says the existing Creative Commons license options do not provide a way to prohibit AI-generated derivatives, which he defines as images or texts directly inspired by his characters, lore, stories, or artwork when AI substantially replaces the development of ideas, creative work, or visual rendering. He cites fan fiction, prequels, games, interactive comics, and generated images as examples, and says he has been receiving more than three permission requests a day from studios, publishers, developers, and other creators. He says the clear statement is intended to reduce the need to answer repeated rejection emails and to establish an assertion of his moral rights as a European artist. Revoy plans to place the notice wherever relevant, invite reports of alleged AI-made derivatives, and pursue larger cases through courts if necessary. The policy is not a total ban on every tool containing AI: he will tolerate software that has received AI code contributions and AI-assisted grammar, proofreading, and translation, mainly when correcting human-authored text. He does not encourage automatic translation, emphasizing the human creative and cultural judgment involved, and says the broader goal is to protect human-made work while filtering out low-effort machine-generated derivatives.