India, April 8 -- Some time back there was a delightful trend of converting photos into Studio Ghibli images. It took the world by storm and people put political, sporting and filmi Ghiblis on their feeds in great numbers. Even India wasn't spared from this.

But what does Studio Ghibli think of this? What do their animators think? Is it a tribute, or was the tonnes of content a form of plagiarism or Intellectual Property violation? What does it even mean to copy someone's style? Some used more AIs to convert those images into cartoons. What if somebody made an entire movie based on that? The team of Studio Ghibli has so far avoided high technology and AI, sticking to the classical 2D method. But now what happens when someone replicates t...