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It seems the more interesting legal question is not regarding input, but whom owns the copyrights of the output, if any. Interesting article: https://www.techn
by fleddr 4y ago
It seems the more interesting legal question is not regarding input, but whom owns the copyrights of the output, if any. Interesting article:
https://www.technollama.co.uk/dall%C2%B7e-goes-commercial-but-what-about-copyright https://www.technollama.co.uk/dall%C2%B7e-goes-commercial-bu...
If I interpret that article correctly, at least Dall-e does not claim copyright on the generation nor does it grant it to the person writing the prompt. The copyright question seems entirely unanswered.
Perhaps that should be codified in law explicitly: AI generated art cannot be copyrighted.
If it was created from the collective input of humanity (unasked), its output may as well benefit all of humanity as well. It's hard to make the case that somebody writing a prompt deserves full copyright protection. Even if so, just add one word and one can claim it's once again an "original".
Not respecting AI copyrights would also help protect the vast area of commercial art, as it lowers its value if it cannot be legally protected. This could get hairy though, because what happens if you take AI output as input and then start manually tweaking/editing it. It would then be a mixed AI/human works.
- archontes 4y agoIt's not entirely unanswered. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-office-rules-ai-art-cant-be-copyrighted-180979808/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...
- anonymousab 4y agoI wonder if that applies to AI generated code as well.
- fleddr 4y agoThanks, did not know that. I consider it to be good news.
- Pulcinella 4y agoThis just says that the AI can’t own the copyright, just like how Photoshop, the software program, can’t be granted a copyright but a person using Photoshop can.
- archontes 4y agoThis is not what this says. This says that the US Copyright Office currently holds that human authorship is a requirement for any work to be copyrighted. They hold that the AI is a form of non-human creator, and thus all of its works are not eligible for copyright. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...