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Category: Authorship

Changshu People’s Court in China recognizes human creator was author of image generated thru prompts on Midjourney and edits on Photoshop

Similar to the decision of the Beijing Internet Court, the Changshu People’s Court recently found an image a person generated through a series of prompts on Midjourney with some editing on Photoshop qualified as a work of authorship under China’s copyright law. (More from Technology’s Legal Edge.) Hu Yue, Deputy Director of the court’s Intellectual…
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U.S. Copyright Office allows registration of computer programs w/ AI-generated source code excluded

The U.S. Copyright Office continues to allow the registrations of works with some AI-generated elements excluded. Today, we canvassed the Copyright Office’s treatment of computer programs. Just last November, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that 25% of the company’s new code in its its programs is written by AI. That percentage is only likely to…
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US Copyright Office allows registration of AI-generated video based on editing of AI generated video, music

The U.S. Copyright Office recently allowed the registration of an AI-generated video with AI-generated music based on the editing of the AI-generated elements. The work is titled “Film clip for song Just Like In A Movie (SNEAK PREVIEW)” by Andrew John King. King wrote the lyrics for the song, with the music AI-generated, and then…
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Copyright Office registers artwork collage consisting of AI-generated elements

The U.S. Copyright Office has allowed a registration for a visual collage consisting of elements that were AI-generated. The author remains anonymous, but the work is titled “A Collection of Objects Which Do Not Exist.“ The Copyright Office registered the work as “2-D artwork, images generated by artificial intelligence” on the basis of “collage, selection…
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US Copyright Office issues Report on Economic Implications of AI for Copyright Policy

Somewhat surprisingly, the Copyright Office just issued another report (on the heels of its authorship and AI report). This one is edited by Brent Lutes, the Chief Economist of the Copyright. The Report analyzes The Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. Here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the Report: Below is a bullet point summary…
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AI-generated image received copyright registration based on “selection, coordination, and arrangement.” Yes, in the United States. How?

As first reported by CNet, the AI-company Invoke, successfully registered a single AI-generated image for a work aptly titled “A Single Piece of American Cheese.” (Invoke is the author as an employer under the work-made-for-hire doctrine.) But Invoke did so only based on the “selection, coordination, and arrangement” of elements otherwise generated by an AI…
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Register of Copyrights Perlmutter says Copyright Office Report on copyrightability of AI-generated works will be released soon. Will it take a more flexible approach?

Speaking at a conference at U. Penn, the Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter said the Copyright Office’s next report on authorship and the copyrightability of AI-generated works will be released to the public soon. I submitted a comment to the Copyright Office on this very issue. I hope the Copyright Office considered my views and…
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Allen v. Perlmutter AI authorship case scheduling conference set for Feb. 4, 2025

The scheduling conference in the Jason Allen v. Perlmutter case in the District of Colorado is set for February 4, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom C-204 of the Byron G. Rogers United States Courthouse, 1929 Stout Street, Denver, Colorado. The case is assigned to Magistrate Judge Kathryn Starnella, after a referral from Judge Kato…
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Scholarship: Prompting Progress: Authorship in the Age of AI in Florida Law Review

I am happy to share my article “Prompting Progress: Authorship in the Age of AI” is now published in the Florida Law Review. Download a PDF in the link: https://www.floridalawreview.com/article/126449-prompting-progress-authorship-in-the-age-of-ai
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Jason Allen v. Shira Perlmutter complaint. Seeks declaration AI-prompted Théâtre D’opéra Spatial is work of authorship

We finally have a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Copyright Office’s misguided approach denying authorship in AI-generated works under the obscure requirement of “traditional elements of authorship,” a term that no federal court has ever used in a copyright decision. Jason Allen, whose initial version of the work Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (on the left) was denied…
Read more: Jason Allen v. Shira Perlmutter complaint. Seeks declaration AI-prompted Théâtre D’opéra Spatial is work of authorship