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Hmm.. so there is also procedural computer art, writing code to produce nice images. Also not copyrightable? At least the code? I draw an image. I write some l

Hmm.. so there is also procedural computer art, writing code to produce nice images. Also not copyrightable? At least the code? I draw an image. I write some lines of code that draws an image. I write many lines of code that do something, gather something, and then draws an image? I just wonder how one can reasonably draw hard lines (and now I don't mean art :D) in the future.. there are so many ridiculous incarnations of copyright and patent fights already out there..

layer8 4y ago
The principles are quite clear: Copyrightability is based on how much originality of a work is attributable to a human (because copyright law is limited to human creations). See [0]. In case of dispute, this has alway had to be assessed by a court on a case-by-case basis, there were never hard lines. In the context of using AI or coding, the question is how much creative control you have over the output. When writing code to draw an image pixel by pixel, then you have full control, probably even for procedural art when you devised the algorithm completely on your own. When using an existing library that can draw crayon strokes or produce nice water color fills, there is less attributable to your own creativity. Similar for AI, where it will have to be assessed how much of the creativity is attributable to the human-invented prompting (likely not much) vs. to the AI. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality