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If I ask Bob to paint me a picture with the prompt 'Paint a banana wearing a green hat' do I own the copyright for Bob's painting because I provided the prompt?
by ROTMetro 4y ago
If I ask Bob to paint me a picture with the prompt 'Paint a banana wearing a green hat' do I own the copyright for Bob's painting because I provided the prompt?
- causi 4y agoIf Bob is your employed artist, you do. If you set your own picture down in front of Bob and asked him to paint a banana wearing a green hat on top of it, which of you owns the copyright? If you tell photoshop to apply a blur filter over a picture, was the resulting image "created by non-human hands"?
- freejazz 4y agoIt's called work for hire doctrine... it's not even remotely close to this issue. This is exactly how tons of artists do their work. Go watch "The Price of Everything" and see Koons' studio working exactly this way. You have to actually make an argument based in fact, not superficial characterizations that are belied by the facts and common sense.
- VanTheBrand 4y agoThat requires bob to sign a certificate of authorship. Good luck getting the AI to do that.
- freejazz 4y agoThat's not true. This is from the copyright office's circular on WFH: There are two situations in which a work made for hire is produced: (1) when the work is created by an employee as part of the employee’s regular duties and (2) when a certain type of work is created as a result of an express written agreement between the creator and a party specially ordering or commissioning the work. neither requires a "certificate of authorship" though one does require an "express agreement" though it need not necc. be a signed writing, let alone a cert of authorship.