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J.liz.goldilox
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September 7, 2022
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AI Generated Artwork

  • September 7, 2022
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I'm growing concerned about the recent influx of AI generated artwork that is being uploaded to Adobe Stock Images as licenseable assets. There seems to be a great many of them, and the copyright concerns for artists purchasing licenses to use these images commercially is worrisome. I believe that AI generated artwork is not copyrightable, so how are these images being permitted to be licensed for commercial use? 

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    October 24, 2022

    At this years' Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced efforts to bring generative AI technology to Adobe products beginning with Photoshop and Adobe Express.  You can read more about it below.

    https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/10/18/bringing-next-wave-ai-creative-cloud

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity Expert
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    September 9, 2022

    What do you make think that AI-generated assets are not copyrightable? And even if it is not copyrightable, why should it not have its place in an Adobe stock database, if it fulfills all the criteria that are needed to be entered here? Even artwork, that is not copyrightable, or that copyright is in the public domain, can be used commercially.

     

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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    J.liz.goldiloxAuthor
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    September 9, 2022

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-office-rules-ai-art-cant-be-copyrighted-180979808/

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    October 25, 2022

    I have just come across this and would be interested in what the United Kingdom's take is on this. 

    U.S. Copyright Office Rules don't apply to those of us originating copyright material of any sort in the UK.

    Someone has to have originated the program that makes the AI work therefore isn't any work it makes protected as part of the intellectual property that makes the AI happen/work?


    Different countries have different copyright laws.  See this discussion for more on that.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-discussions/how-to-avoid-ai-art/m-p/13213896

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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