Adobe gets called out for violating its own AI ethics; Digital Trends, June 3, 2024

  Andrew Tarantola , Digital Trends; Adobe gets called out for violating its own AI ethics

"Last Friday, the estate of famed 20th century American photographer Ansel Adams took to Threads to publicly shame Adobe for allegedly offering AI-genearated art “inspired by” Adams’ catalog of work, stating that the company is “officially on our last nerve with this behavior.”...

Adobe has since removed the offending images, conceding in the Threads conversation that, “this goes against our Generative AI content policy.”

However, the Adams estate seemed unsatisfied with that response, claiming that it had been “in touch directly” with the company “multiple times” since last August. “Assuming you want to be taken seriously re: your purported commitment to ethical, responsible AI, while demonstrating respect for the creative community,” the estate continued, “we invite you to become proactive about complaints like ours, & to stop putting the onus on individual artists/artists’ estates to continuously police our IP on your platform, on your terms.”"

Thaler Appeals D.C. Court Decision Denying Copyright for AI-Generated Art; The Fashion Law, October 12, 2023

The Fashion Law; Thaler Appeals D.C. Court Decision Denying Copyright for AI-Generated Art

"A case over the availability of copyright protection for artificial intelligence-generated artwork is headed before a U.S. appeals court. In a notice lodged on Wednesday, Stephen Thaler alerted the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that he is appealing its August 18 decision, in which it held that an artwork created by AI is not eligible for copyright registration, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As first reported by TFL, Thaler – who sought to register the AI-generated artwork, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” with the Copyright Office – is appealing the D.C. court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Shira Perlmutter and the Copyright Office and its denial of his own summary judgment motion this summer...

The case is Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, et al., 1:22-cv-01564 (DDC)."

New AI systems collide with copyright law; BBC News, July 31, 2023

 Suzanne Bearne, BBC News; New AI systems collide with copyright law

""I remember thinking, if this can happen on a small scale, it can happen on a giant scale," says the artist from Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

Aggrieved by the lack of protection for artists, she grouped together with five other artists to set up the European Guild of Artificial Intelligence Regulation.

"The aim is to create legislation and regulation to protect copyright holders and artists from predatory AI companies," she says."