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An image from the graphic novel, Zarya of the Dawn. |
Currently, the answer is no. In order to be copyrighted, there must be a human author. Copyright rulings in other countries may have different opinions. For example, a Chinese court awarded copyright protection to AI-generated images in one case. They ruled that the human intellectual input for prompting and selecting images, “reflects the plaintiff's personalized expression.” |
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Some say no, it’s unlawful. Many artists and writers feel AI is appropriating their work without consent or compensation to build profitable products, threatening their creative livelihoods. |
Others say yes, training is fair use. They argue that AI models learn from these works to generate transformative original content, so no infringement occurs. Many scholars and librarians argue that training AI language models on copyrighted works constitutes fair use, which is essential for research. |
Some courts have thrown out parts of the lawsuits, but kept others. Some of the cases may be settled out of court.
In the meantime, companies like Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have offered to pay legal bills from lawsuits against users of their tools.
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