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AI Art - A.I. comic Zarya of the Dawn declared ineligible for copyright protections

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← Thread MAIJIN.THE ARTIST ✔ @MAIJINTHEARTIST A.I. COMIC BOOK REJECTED by the U.S. Copyright Office in landmark decision. Kris Kashtanova used Midjourney's A.I. model to produce the comic book, Zarya of The Dawn...and became the most publicized test case for whether A.I. image generations should be granted copyright protections for human authorship. She was rightfully rejected. Why? Well, the Copyright attorneys have echoed what I mentioned before, which is ANY prompter's contribution to the A.I. image generation process is purely ART DIRECTION. Therefore, a prompter is NEITHER directly or substantially responsible for the actual authorship of the image itself - just the direction of it. But even so, STILL prompters have less say in the art direction than most Art Directors who work with human artists...because the A.I. generation process is still largely randomized/arbitrary, despite the specificity of the prompter or prompt engineer. Make no mistake, Kris Kashtanova was backed by Midjourney and the A.I. community as a whole, who OBVIOUSLY sent her out with Midjourney's legal counsel to legitimize A.I. 'art' by getting it 'on record' as legal precedent, and indistinguishable from human crafted art.... which is why the entire A.I. community attempted to anthropomorphologize the neural network of the A.I. models as this was playing out. This is a major win for artists and creators all across the country...and the world. Source: t.co/wlSw3sEYTO Thanks to @franklingraves for breaking the news. (2 United States Copyright Offer Van Lind Taylor English DLLP B San An, TX 78258 Previous Componen ID1-556 Re: Zary of the Dawn (Registration VA February 21, 2023 The United States Copyright Office has neviewed your letter dated November 21, 2022 responding to our letter to your chest, Kristina Kasanova, socking additional information coming the autohip of her work tided Zarys of the Down the "Work) Mx Kanva had previously applied for and obtained a copyright registration for the Work, Registration *VA. We appreciate the information provided in your letter, including your description of the operation of the Maloney's artificial intelligence (AF) sochlogy and The completed its review of the Work's original registration application and deposit egy, as well as the relevant compondence in the administrative second We conclude that Ms. Katana is the author of the Work's text as well as the selection, coordination, and aangement of the Work's written and visual elements. That api protected by opyright. However, as discussed below, the images in the Work that were generated by the My technology are not the product of human aubonhip. Because the current and registration for the Work does not disclaim is Midouney-gened comest, we imeto cancel the original certificate issood to Ms. Kasanova and is a new one covering only the expressive al The Office's one of the registration certificate will not change its effective de the new regation will have the same effective date as the original September 15, 2002 The publice will be updated to cross-reference the cancellation and the new will briefly explain that the cancelled registration was replaced with the new, more limited The Offligendence M. Ka ping on the Off fo MAIJIN.THE ARTIST 27 @MAIJINTHEARTIST L DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK M. As described in the application and accompanying deposit materials provided by Mc Khe Work is a comic book consisting of eightees pages of which is one cover. The cover page costs of an image of a young woman the Work's e, and the words "K" and "umy." The remaining pages cost of mixed text and material. A reproduction of the over page and the second page are provided b Last edited 1:24 PM Feb 22, 2023 1.2M Views ZARYA OF THE DAWN 4,274 Retweets 382 Quote Tweets 22.1K Likes IL SUMMARY OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD On September 15, 2002, Ms. Kathmined an application for the Work and opies of each page of the Work as the deposit copy. In her application, M Kanald ther of the work as "Kristina Kasand dut she had created a " book. The application did not disclose t she used anificial intelligence to any part of she disclaim any portion of the Work The Office reviewed the application on the same day and Shortly after going the Work, the Office became aware often on social mediated to Ms. Kad that she had created the comic booking My anificial intelligence. Because the application had not disclosed the use of artificial intelligence, Acadendo K225, 183 Retweets 2,043 Likes of the ning of the US Copyright or Le bon 22 DEAD IN THE WATER: A.I. prompters have received a death and deafening blow in their attempts to legitimize generative A.I. imagery, and they are grasping for straws to find legal recourse. FEAR NOT, It will not happen. I repeat, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. Why? A.I. prompters will be UNABLE to get around the core argument by me and the Copyright Attorneys... which is prompters are effectively ART DIRECTORS to the a.i. models, and therefore they are not the actual creators of the actual image it produced from their direction. It doesn't matter how they spin it... revise it... or fight it... The argument for Al-generated images being copyrighted is DEAD IN THE WATER. 1 CASE IN POINT: Dr. Stephen Thaler was also rejected copyright protections for his A.I. generated image, and he took it all the way to the Federal Appeals court... and recently, he is likely about to lose that appeal and the copyright office is holding steadfast to their decision that NO A.I. generated images are copyrightable. news.bloomberglaw.com /ip-law/ai-crea... Stephen Thaler's attorney gaslit him, as they are gaslighting Kashtanova and other Generative A.I. supporters, that there is a chance to overturn the decision...THERE IS NOT. It's DEAD IN THE WATER. Big win for human artists. The tide is turning my friends. 3:09 PM - Feb 22, 2023-69.6K Views The copyright office only granted Kristina Kashtanova copyright for the story she allegedly wrote herself (unless it is later proven the text was also Al generated)... which is understandable and should not matter. The point of this exercise was always "can the a.i. images be copyrightable" and they ABSOLUTELY CANNOT for now and for many years to come. € 3 ↑

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drossbots

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Feb 27, 2023 at 04:29PM EST

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Yo-Yogi_Noid

Yo-Yogi_Noid

Feb 28, 2023 at 11:28AM EST in reply to Fedon Cand

You would need to alter it radically for it to count as a transformative work, to the point where you may as well just do the art yourself from scratch. The thing is, most people trying to jump onto this technology aren't willing to put in that much work. They just want an art machine that can do all the work for them.

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