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This has been an open question for a while, and is in the process of being figures out. Some fun examples: - "Generative art and UK copyright law - good news",

This has been an open question for a while, and is in the process of being figures out. Some fun examples: - "Generative art and UK copyright law - good news", http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2011/generative-art-and-uk-copyright-law-good-news.html http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2011/generative-art-and-uk-copyright-... - "Template License and Collaboration Agreements for AI Art" https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2019/02/04/template-license-and-collaboration-agreements-for-ai-art/ https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2019/02/04/template-license...

TheOtherHobbes 7y ago
There's a more complicated problem. Generative art explores a space of possible outputs, and in some cases some of those outputs will be exactly like existing work. If a melody generator produces a tune that's exactly like $famous_tune, is that plagiarism? What if it produces $famous_tune among thousands of other tunes? Does it make a difference if $famous_tune was in the training set, but there isn't any evidence of over-fitting? What if you argue that the generative space includes $famous_tune, and therefore in some sense all output is influenced by it, making all output a related or derivative work - even if the space is astronomically huge? And so on. I suspect this is going to keep lawyers very busy.