The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it
Regarding copyright on photos of the Eiffel Tower at night due to the arrangement of the lights...<p>It would be interesting to take a photo of the Eiffel Tower by day, and then<p>- apply style transfer to turn it into a photo by night (which would, I suspect exclude any lights)<p>- train a (second) neural network to predict the positions of lights on a night-time photos of various buildings (ensuring that all buildings&#x2F;light arrangements in your dataset predated the Eiffel Tower&#x27;s lights).<p>I suspect that you could end up with images close to the real Eiffel Tower - at least close enough for it to be aesthetically pleasing and recognisable as the Eiffel Tower.<p>What would the copyright position on this be?  IANAL, but it seems as though either<p>- the lights are not exactly correct, and so this (manipulated) photo isn&#x27;t covered by the copyright on the lights on the Eiffel Tower or<p>- the lights are correct (or close enough), and so the lights on the Eiffel Tower are in the obvious places (given that a ML algorithm could predict them) - in that case, is there enough creativity in the arrangement for copyright to have been granted.<p>Thoughts?<p>(I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll never find enough time to actually do this - the style transfer is trivial, but finding a suitable dataset of photos of other buildings of a suitable era by night is probably too much work! :( )