Thanks to everyone for your replies! The fact that bothers me is that this person uses my Midjourney username, he pretends to be me. I know that Midjourney's creations are not copyrighted, my images are in more places, but not with my name.
You haven't told us anything about why you ask this in Adobe Stock contributor forum. Are you a stock contributor? Are the copied photos sold by a second stock contributor? How could they have the same username?
There are a few things that are unclear to me here. Are you an Adobe Stock Contributor? What platform or website are the alleged stolen images being sold on?
Adobe Stock has partner sites that display our stock images, but we only see revenue when a sale is made. It's worth at least ruling this out as a potential cause.
Yea your images are not protected under copyright; So much so that I will take them right now and sell them as nft's. You don't really own them because you didn't really create them. What you can do is use ai art as inspiration for art that you actually create.
I'm not giving legal advice because I don't practice law. From an ethics standpoint, it sucks. But based on U.S. Copyright, your Midjourney assets can't be protected. Only content created by a human can be protected.
If you keep Generative AI & text prompts in public view, anyone can take them and use for their own purpose. It's the same with images in public domain. There's not much you can do about it.
I suppose we could also see duplicate AI images if the creators just happened to enter the same text prompts. After all, how many different varieties of "cats in roller skates" can a Generative AI tool generate?