“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

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.

  • Hugin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The ai generated portion does not have copy right protection. This also applies within an image. So for instance in an ai generated building image with a human created character in front. People couldn’t copy the character but could use the background.

      • Shazbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They’ll have to find the tools that will help them detect AI works. However, the current standard they’ve set is that once they learn its AI generated the work is no longer protected under copyright law.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      AI generated portions of things would have copyright per the article. Only wholly-AI-created content is non-copyrightable per this ruling.