facebookresearch / watermark-anything

Official implementation of the paper "Watermark Anything with Localized Messages"
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Commercial license #4

Open ryabchenkoa opened 18 hours ago

ryabchenkoa commented 18 hours ago

Hello!

First, thank you for the paper and the code, from the first looks of it, it seems to be a great leap in watermarking technology! Since it seems that the technology can be quite useful for commercial use, do you have any plans to change the license to a commercial one like Apache 2.0 that you have for many other models? Or at least is it possible to buy a separate license for commercial use?

Thank you!

pierrefdz commented 15 hours ago

Hi, at the moment the model is NC because we trained on images from COCO which are not permissive for redistribution. I'll reach out to our legal teams to see what we can do with that regard.

ryabchenkoa commented 8 hours ago

Thank you!

I was convinced that COCO is CC 4.0 and was not prohibitive for redistribution, since so many publish their models with permissive license and pre-train on COCO.

Please, let us know!

pierrefdz commented 5 hours ago

FYI not all images in COCO have the same license. Some are CC BY, some are CC BY NC, etc. Distribution of the images are the following: image

ryabchenkoa commented 4 hours ago

Ah, I see. CC4 is for annotations, you are absolutely right.

In this case, would it be possible to have a separate licenses for the code and the weights? I.e. if the model could be trained from scratch on a custom dataset, then it wouldn't violate COCO's privacy.

pierrefdz commented 3 hours ago

In my experience legals prefers to have a unique license. I'll come back to you with solutions soon