“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge::United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell found that AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted, putting to rest a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office over its refusal to copyright an AI-generated image.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    1 year ago

    think less House of Mouse and more like “screws, but different”

    What are you talking about with “screws, but different”? Are you confusing patent law. with copyright law…?

    Patents protect the design and/or mechanism of physical inventions vs copyright which protects written works (books, articles, papers, source code, etc) and similar media assets (music, movies, tv shows, etc) from unauthorized reproduction?

    WRT patents, I agree they suck, and they need rethought (or at least, there needs to be a much higher bar to getting a patent).

    Copyright law as currently implemented limits expression and prevents expansion of ideas

    Copyright does very little to limit expression and actually encourages people to come up with original work vs simply reproducing or altering in the smallest way possible an existing work. Through fair use, copyright even permits sufficiently derived works like parodies and satire.

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Copyright is not a perfect system, by a long shot. Copyright lasts way too long. 70 years after the death of the author. That is just too much. It means you cannot use any copyrighted works that you enjoyed as a child. It also gets abused far too much by large companies taking down IMO legitimate derivative works from smaller creators to suppress and control their content with iron fists. And that is a limitation of expression.