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AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge (www.theverge.com)

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AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge::United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell found that AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted, putting to rest a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office over its refusal to copyright an AI-generated image.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, no change then. This is as it has always been. You can take AI elements chop them up, recombine them, and have copyright over the result, but you can't say "Show me a picture of waffles" in your prompt and expect the resulting waffles to be copyrightable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is not even what this case was about - it was about some guy that created an AI that used that AI to generate an image with no real inputs - then claiming that the AI was the author and the copyright should transfer to him as the owner of the AI.

No precedence was set on how much human creative input was needed for an AI created image to be considered copyrightable. Only that you need to be a human to copyright something. Which was already set by previous cases where animals took a picture of things/themselves. No you don't get copyright if you own the camera, just like you don't get copyright for owning the AI.

I am not aware of any cases yet which start to set the bar for what is considered enough human creative work for the content to be considered copyrightable.