The Copyright Office has a clear policy on AI.

An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

  • macniel
    1•5 hours ago

    In the case of someone saying I want a song that is ABAG, and they ask that it be written down because they cannot write it down themselves

    Then we are again in a commissioner situation. The guy who commissioned a composer to write them a song according to their specifications.

    In regards to your bucket of paint.

    That’s an art installation which you can copyright. The resulting artwork on the canvas can’t be.

    • @chemical_cutthroat
      0•5 hours ago

      That’s an art installation which you can copyright. The resulting artwork on the canvas can’t be.

      Do you have anything to back that up?

        • @chemical_cutthroat
          0•4 hours ago

          Damien Hirst and Jackson Pollock would like to have a word with you.

          • macniel
            2•4 hours ago

            I would not be qualified to talk to Hirst or a dead painter. They would have to take it with the Copyright law.