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.”

  • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    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

    • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      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.