An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

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    11 month ago

    content aware delete

    I didn’t say anything about “content aware delete”

    every single photo touched

    You still haven’t grasped that copyright can be applied to some elements of a photo, but not others.

    user doing everything

    I’ve said many times that copyright protects the creative decisions in a work, which you can’t seem to distinguish from “doing everything”.

    monkey selfie

    Now explain why Andy Warhol could not claim copyright over “Orange Prince”. It has nothing to do with nonhumans or AI.

    I’ll give you a hint: it has to do with creative decisions. Or lack thereof.

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      11 month ago

      Your logic is just absolutely horrendous and outright wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation.

      If you want to make sure AI art can’t be copyrighted there are other actual logical reasons that I’ve already covered. Arguing with you when you clearly don’t understand what you’re talking about is incredibly annoying though so I’m gonna wish you a good day.

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        11 month ago

        On the contrary, I’m just repeating what courts have already ruled.

        You’re the one spreading misinformation. For instance, you just suggested using AI to delete something would invalidate copyright over the rest of the image, which is simply nonsense.