Sunday, September 24, 2023

An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted; The Guardian, September 24, 2023

 , The Guardian ; An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted

"Courts are now routinely referring to human authorship requirements under copyright law, including rejecting Kristina Kashtanova’s copyright claim for Zarya of the Dawn, a book “‘authored’ by non-human spiritual beings”. That ruling noted “it is not creations of divine beings” copyright is designed to protect.

Case law on the issue also now includes the rejection of a copyright lawsuit brought on behalf of a selfie-taking monkey. But in the Thaler case, Judge Beryl Howell did acknowledge that humanity is “approaching new frontiers in copyright” where artists will use AI as a tool to create new work."

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