> Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit noted in Arica v. Palmer that a court may find copyright infringement under the doctrine of "comprehensive non-literal similarity" if "the pattern or sequence of the two works is similar".
You're going to have a much harder time proving that you absolutely did not copy something if you had an image of what you're being accused of copying in the dataset you used to make it. If the images are deemed substantially similar, it will be deemed an infringement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity
> Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit noted in Arica v. Palmer that a court may find copyright infringement under the doctrine of "comprehensive non-literal similarity" if "the pattern or sequence of the two works is similar".
You're going to have a much harder time proving that you absolutely did not copy something if you had an image of what you're being accused of copying in the dataset you used to make it. If the images are deemed substantially similar, it will be deemed an infringement.