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Larry Lessig: AI generated works should be copyrightable but only if AI system registers it
Read more: Larry Lessig: AI generated works should be copyrightable but only if AI system registers itFascinating interview of Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig about AI on Nilay Patel’s Decoder. “The view that I have which is surprising to people is that I absolutely think that when you use AI to create work there out to be a copyright that comes out of that…. “What we need is an efficient system…
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The Copyright Office’s approach to AI is wrong. Here’s why.
Read more: The Copyright Office’s approach to AI is wrong. Here’s why.At long last, I have posted a preprint draft of my article Prompting Progress: Authorship in the Age of AI, 76 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024). You can download it from SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4609687 The Article explains why the Copyright Office’s recent guidance and position denying the copyrightability of AI generated works is wrong. It follows…
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Copyright Office denies Jason Allen was author of Theatre D’Opera image, prompt engineered on Midjourney (PDF download)
Read more: Copyright Office denies Jason Allen was author of Theatre D’Opera image, prompt engineered on Midjourney (PDF download)The U.S. Copyright published a second decision rejecting the registration of an image prompt-engineered on Midjourney. The first decision involved Kristina Kashtanova’s images in her graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn; the Office ruled that the images lacked human authorship or the “traditional elements of authorship,” despite Kashtanova’s development, through hundreds of prompts, of a…