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Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted (www.wired.com)

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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.”

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[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...or it's created by literally everybody. If the AI is trained on public data I'm not sure how we can claim "nobody" created it.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"everybody" and "nobody" pretty much means the same thing in the eye of law in this context

[–] mycall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If it is "everybody", then it follows common law and is public domain. If it is "nobody", then it is abandonware.