Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual ⁠art ‌was ineligible for copyright.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43846600

This is massive news. Means companies can’t create defensible IP from any AI-generated work.

Interesting to know how far this extends to… movies, code?

  • cenotaph@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not necessarily, just means they don’t think this particular case has the strength to decide precedent the way they want. There is nothing that stops some corpo from bringing a different case should you use their material.

    Although it does mean the lower court case stands for now, so to a degree you are correct