Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art?

Re:Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art? by mkl on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:03PM (#23514248)

Collage may be a better analogy than paint. An artist can make an image with a collage of bits of other artists' works, in much the same way that a generative network can make an image out of image elements derived from other artists' works.

The question is not whether the "AI" has any ownership, but whether the original artists do, or whether the programmers do, or whether the people selecting training images do, or whether the person selecting a final artwork out of a mass of inferior generated images does.

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Re:Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art? by jxf on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:33PM (#23514402)

> An artist can make an image with a collage of bits of other artists' works, in much the same way that a generative network can make an image out of image elements derived from other artists' works.

That's not a good analogy because a human is involved. The entire point here is whether living entities other than persons can have copyright, and the answer (in the US) is no.

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Re:Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art? by mkl on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:48PM (#23514702)

"living entities other than persons" having or not having copyright is unrelated, as programs are not living entities. Humans are definitely involved in developing, training, operating, and choosing output from machine learning art-generating systems.

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Re:Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art? by gfxgirl on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:31PM (#23514635)

The AI didn't write itself. A human chose the algorithms, the training data, the goals, etc....

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Re:Who should own the copyright of AI-generated art? by visarga on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:42AM (#23515395)

Apparently that's nothing. As if all this AI generative art is trivial.

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