Artificial Intelligence
US Copyright Court Denies Protection For Another AI-Created Art
The US Copyright Office has declined to give copyright protection to an image created by artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. This is the second time Jason M. Allen has requested copyright protection for his sci-fi image, Theatre D’opera Spatial, which he created using generative AI system Midjourney. The office said that the image isn’t entitled to protection because it wasn’t the product of human authorship.
Allen told Reuters that denying AI artwork copyright protection “is going to cause more problems than it solves.” Allen’s image depicts a futuristic royal court and won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition in 2022 making it the first AI-generated work to win the contest.
Back in February, the US Copyright Office handed down a similar ruling about the graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn by Kris Kashtanova. The office said Kashtanova was entitled to copyright protection for the parts of the book he wrote and arranged, but not the images created by Midjourney. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howard ruled that AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted.
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The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.
The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which they warned of a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
Artificial Intelligence
Kate Bush, New Order, & Damon Albarn Among 1,000 UK Artists Protesting Government’s AI Stance With A Silent Album
Last week, the UK government proposed a new policy that would allow tech companies to use copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence algorithms. Under the proposal, artists and companies could opt out of having their material used for AI, but it would otherwise give the companies unfettered access to people’s creative work without having to license anything. The proposal has incited widespread anger in the UK’s arts communities, and now a team of 1,000 British musicians has released a silent protest album called Is This What We Want?
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
