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0 pointsDangeranger3y ago0 comments

This statement is not accurate[0].

> But copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind.” COMPENDIUM (THIRD) § 306 (quoting Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U.S. 82, 94 (1879)); see also COMPENDIUM (THIRD) § 313.2 (the Office will not register works “produced by a machine or mere mechanical process” that operates “without any creative input or intervention from a human author” because, under the statute, “a work must be created by a human being”). So Thaler must either provide evidence that the Work is the product of human authorship or convince the Office to depart from a century of copyright jurisprudence.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

0 pointsDangeranger3y ago0 comments

This statement is not accurate[0].

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

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witheld3y ago· 3 in thread

This is literally irrelevant, this is about attempting to register art as owned BY the computer

If you give the computer the instructions, such as “avocado chair”, the avocado chair is yours.

It wouldn’t be yours if it was something like a deep dream- if you ran the program with no input and generated a “random” work.

DangerangerOP3y ago

Please cite a source that confirms your claim, rather than stating it as a fact without evidence. You may be right, but I have no way of confirming that given the content of your comment.

The report I’ve cited makes a compelling argument against your claim, and several prominent organization’s copyright policies align with it.

iggldiggl3y ago

Your quote says “without any creative input or intervention from a human author”.

Just hitting a "Generate random artwork" button indeed certainly doesn't seem to qualify as "creative output or intervention", but as for how DALL-E and consorts currently work, I'd say that coming up with a suitable prompt text, potentially refining it to get the output closer to what you want, curating the output, maybe using one of the output pictures as input for further processing, etc. arguably all are at least some amount "creative input or intervention from a human author".

cuteboy193y ago

Is Dalle significantly different from Adobe Photoshop in the eyes of the law? In both cases you will use a software agent to create art. In fact CGI art has existed for decades. Surely this is a settled question

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