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The U.S. Copyright Office seems to be living under a rock and completely unaware of how much creative work goes into prompt engineering, as well as selecting th
by ummonk 4y ago
The U.S. Copyright Office seems to be living under a rock and completely unaware of how much creative work goes into prompt engineering, as well as selecting the subsequent image and applying variations to it until it meets the human's creative desires.
- legostormtroopr 4y agoIf there is substantive work in the development of the prompt, then the applicant can submit the prompt for copyright. The finding seems pretty reasonable, if the machine is doing the work then the machine can claim authorship. Otherwise, we would say that the Pope was the author of the Sistine Chapel as they prompted Michelangelo to paint "a large curve display of heaven including with clouds and pictures of angels triumphant".
- mlindner 4y agoThey state this about the prompt engineering: > While some prompts may be sufficiently creative to be protected by copyright, that does not mean that material generated from a copyrightable prompt is itself copyrightable. The prompt is fully copyrightable but the output isn't.