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US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
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Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.

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[–] WhitePaintIsEvil@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this case is dead. The copyright office did the same thing with the monkey selfies and the ai art piece from stephen thaler. That "void of ownership" is just public domain. Gonna be interesting what other kind of ai cases come up later though.