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China court: AI generated image is copyrightable; originality satisfied thru person’s prompts
Read more: China court: AI generated image is copyrightable; originality satisfied thru person’s promptsThis week, the Beijing Internet Court made a key ruling in a copyright lawsuit involving the copyright in an AI generated image of a woman that was made by Li, a creator who used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator. According to South China Morning Post, the Beijing Internet Court found that Li satisfied originality in…
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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…
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Farhad Manjoo’s more positive take on generative AI
Read more: Farhad Manjoo’s more positive take on generative AIIn an opinion piece for the New York Times, columnist Farhad Manjoo has a more positive take on generative AI. Manjoo doesn’t think generative AI will displace human creators, at least not to the extent feared: “Indeed, I’d bet that artists and creative industries will ultimately find A.I. to be more of a boon than…
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Autonomously generated AI works aren’t copyrightable, court rules in Thaler v. Perlmutter
Read more: Autonomously generated AI works aren’t copyrightable, court rules in Thaler v. PerlmutterJudge Beryl A. Howell agreed with the Copyright Office’s ruling that the autonomously generated AI work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” does not satisfy the requirement of human authorship, required for a work to qualify for copyright in the United States under the Copyright Act. The work was created by Stephen Thaler’s Creativity Machine, and…