Pretty sure the office said the arrange of the book was itself protectable but the individual images were not.
https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2023/02/23/comic-book-...
https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2023/02/23/comic-book-...
If I render 6 characters, composite them into a background and run the complete composite through another generative step to clean it up, where do I fall?