You cannot copyright AI-generated images / US Copyright Office

2023-03-21

The United States Copyright Office informed that any images produced by writing a prompt to any artificial intelligence model, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. USCO said it is the same when a buyer gives instructions to a commissioned artist. The new guidance, published in the Federal Register, states that AI models identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those directions are implemented in its output. It also...

The United States Copyright Office informed that any images produced by writing a prompt to any artificial intelligence model, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US.

USCO said it is the same when a buyer gives instructions to a commissioned artist.

The new guidance, published in the Federal Register, states that AI models identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those directions are implemented in its output.

It also wrote: “When a technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the ‘traditional elements of authorship’ are determined and executed by the technology, not the human user.”

To grant copyright protection, a considerable level of human creativity must be involved. So, AI cannot produce copyrighted work.

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