This guy’s court cases are widely misunderstood by the general public.
In a nutshell: he’s a crank who is trying to tell the court “I don’t hold a copyright to the thing my AI produced, my AI holds the copyright.”
And the court tells him: “Only people (or legal persons, like corporations) can hold a copyright. Your AI cannot. If you say that you yourself don’t either, we can’t force you to have a copyright on it. So I guess that thing has no copyright and is therefore in the public domain.”
And then everyone gasps and exclaims “the court just ruled that AI-generated things are in the public domain!”
Well, AI-generated things are in the public domain since as you said, they can’t be copyrighted, LegalEagle on youtube actually brought this up, but it was in regards to NFTs and how those were almost all AI generated therefore you can’t buy it’s copyright and own it.
He also talked about a case of a famous picture where a monkey (or whatever a primate) took a picture with a photographers camera and then he wanted to sue for copyright infringement and it was tossed because the monkey was the author and only humans can have copyright.
This guy’s court cases are widely misunderstood by the general public.
In a nutshell: he’s a crank who is trying to tell the court “I don’t hold a copyright to the thing my AI produced, my AI holds the copyright.”
And the court tells him: “Only people (or legal persons, like corporations) can hold a copyright. Your AI cannot. If you say that you yourself don’t either, we can’t force you to have a copyright on it. So I guess that thing has no copyright and is therefore in the public domain.”
And then everyone gasps and exclaims “the court just ruled that AI-generated things are in the public domain!”
Well, AI-generated things are in the public domain since as you said, they can’t be copyrighted, LegalEagle on youtube actually brought this up, but it was in regards to NFTs and how those were almost all AI generated therefore you can’t buy it’s copyright and own it.
He also talked about a case of a famous picture where a monkey (or whatever a primate) took a picture with a photographers camera and then he wanted to sue for copyright infringement and it was tossed because the monkey was the author and only humans can have copyright.