The Copyright Office has a clear policy on AI.

An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

    • atzanteolEnglish
      1014·
      2 months ago

      Yes, photographers, who held their camera, who spent years honing their craft, learning the ins and out of the art of photography, who put their bodies in the field to capture real life, yes, they should be able to copyright their work.

      Pull out your phone. Open the camera app. Click the button. You just did an art.

        • atzanteolEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I didn’t say a good art. But a work sufficiently creative as to be covered by copyright at the least.

    • tee9000@lemmy.world
      711·
      2 months ago

      It absolutely takes training to familiarize yourself with the model and get the results you want.

      Copyright or not doesnt change time and effort that can be spent on prompting. Theres no reason to have an objective stance against people that want to explore it.

        • tee9000@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 months ago

          Rejection of reality? Because you dont like ai?

          So you could create a targeted result with prompts/iterations as well as someone who has practiced with midjourney since it came out?