A.I. OF THE BEHOLDER – The nice Bayside Excessive thinker Lisa Turtle as soon as requested, “What’s artwork? Are we artwork? Is artwork artwork?” In a pending class motion filed by three artists in opposition to startups Stability AI, DeviantArt and Midjourney, the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California is at present pondering the same brain-teaser: is generative AI artwork artwork? Or is it, because the plaintiffs allege, simply an illegal pastiche of copyrighted materials? Law.com’s Isha Marathe spoke with a number of mental property attorneys, who’ve been following the trajectory of the copyright debate round AI artwork, to get their ideas on the case and its potential broader ramifications.
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