The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence, denying a request by artist Jason M. Allen for a copyright covering an award-winning image he created with the generative AI system Midjourney.
Copyright is incompatible with AI, and they know it. If an image gets generated, who can be seen as the owner?
The person who wrote the prompt?
The AI who used its knowledge to generate the image?
The researcher who developed the AI?
The multiple artists on which the work is based?
Those Copyright Offices are on the precipice of being deemed useless. This is one of their final struggles to stay relevant.
Or the novelty of AI-created art will wear off and we’ll go on with our lives.