> Orrick spends the rest of his ruling explaining why he found the artists’ complaint defective, which includes various issues, but the big one being that two o

> Orrick spends the rest of his ruling explaining why he found the artists’ complaint defective, which includes various issues, but the big one being that two of the artists — McKernan and Ortiz, did not actually file copyrights on their art with the U.S. Copyright Office. [...] The other problem for plaintiffs is that it is simply not plausible that every Training Image used to train Stable Diffusion was copyrighted (as opposed to copyrightable) What? I thought everything was copyrighted by default under the Berne Convention? That's the reason for the existence of CC0 [0], after all. Their FAQ says: "Copyright and other laws throughout the world automatically extend copyright protection to works of authorship and databases, whether the author or creator wants those rights or not." [0] https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#What_is_CC0.3F https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#What_is_CC0.3F