Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”

Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted::Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year ago

    Tweaks adjustments and corrections need a reference material. The raw AI image needs to be published first for his tweaks to be copyrightable. Anyone wanting to claim copyright on edits should produce the initial uncopyrightable image too.

    but then that makes it not his original work and he shouldn’t be putting it in competitions.

    • NatanaelEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      The first half isn’t relevant under copyright law, you can publish edits to old public domain works without publishing the original, this is extremely common even by museums.

      The second point is however completely fair

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        I mean more in the sense the you can make sense of what someone brings into the original art by comparing it with the original. And that’s what copyrightable or not. An edited AI art without its raw - where the generated image starts and someone else’s contribution begins is a black box.