Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi, Conor Humphries and Mark Porter
Art
AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says
Aug 21 (Reuters) – A work of art created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, a U.S. court in Washington, D.C., has ruled.
Only works with human authors can receive copyrights, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said on Friday, affirming the Copyright Office’s rejection of an application filed by computer scientist Stephen Thaler on behalf of his DABUS system.
The Friday decision follows losses for Thaler on bids for U.S. patents covering inventions he said were created by DABUS, short for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience.
Thaler has also applied for DABUS-generated patents in other countries including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Saudi Arabia with limited success.
Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott, on Monday said that he and his client strongly disagree with the decision and will appeal. The Copyright Office in a statement on Monday said it “believes the court reached the correct result.”
The fast-growing field of generative AI has raised novel intellectual property issues. The Copyright Office has also rejected an artist’s bid for copyrights on images generated through the AI system Midjourney despite the artist’s argument that the system was part of their creative process.
Several pending lawsuits have also been filed over the use of copyrighted works to train generative AI without permission.
“We are approaching new frontiers in copyright as artists put AI in their toolbox,” which will raise “challenging questions” for copyright law, Howell wrote on Friday.
“This case, however, is not nearly so complex,” Howell said.
Thaler applied in 2018 for a copyright covering “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” a piece of visual art he said was created by his AI system without any human input. The office rejected the application last year and said creative works must have human authors to be copyrightable.
Thaler challenged the decision in federal court, arguing that human authorship is not a concrete legal requirement and allowing AI copyrights would be in line with copyright’s purpose as outlined in the U.S. constitution to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.”
Howell agreed with the Copyright Office and said human authorship is a “bedrock requirement of copyright” based on “centuries of settled understanding.”
Continue Reading
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate Cracked.com
Source link
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 CBC.ca
Source link
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
News5 hours ago
Bad traffic, changed plans: Toronto braces for uncertainty of its Taylor Swift Era
News7 hours ago
‘It’s literally incredible’: Swifties line up for merch ahead of Toronto concerts
News7 hours ago
Via Rail seeks judicial review on CN’s speed restrictions
Investment5 years ago
dynaCERT Inc. Invites You to Join Us at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference | INN – Investing News Network
Sports5 years ago
AP source: Bears acquiring quarterback Nick Foles from Jaguars – Sportsnet.ca
Media1 year ago
12 Bizarre Things People Did Just To Make Social Media Content
-
News24 hours agoChrystia Freeland says carbon rebate for small businesses will be tax-free
-
News23 hours agoFACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories
-
News23 hours agoNova Scotia election promise tracker: What has been promised by three main parties?
-
News23 hours agoFormer B.C. premier John Horgan, who connected with people, dies at 65
-
News23 hours agoSuncor Energy earnings rise to $2.02 billion in third quarter
-
News23 hours agoSwearing-in ceremonies at B.C. legislature mark start of new political season
-
News23 hours agoNew Brunswick premier confirms her Liberal government will draft carbon pricing plan
-
News23 hours agoB.C. teen with bird flu is in critical care, infection source unknown: health officer
