Art Institute argues it legally owns watercolor: 'No evidence' it was 'ever physically seized or looted by Nazis’ The Chicago museum, responding to a motion filed by New York prosecutors, says ...

There is no perspective to AI art, no inspiration, nothing it is trying to communicate. It’s a compilation playlist built by an algorithm, spinning an endless number of remixes and cover songs.

The copyright office has turned down an work of AI art for the second time. Stephen Thaler has unsuccessfully sought copyright protection for the AI-created A Recent Entrance to Paradise.

However, if such works are to be given little or no copyright protection (as appears to be the case), the studios may be more willing to give up AI capabilities as a bargaining chip in negotiations.

The suit claims Kiyoko Lerner has no legal right to the work or the copyright of “outsider” artist Henry Darger, who died in 1973.

The purpose of copyright, per the Constitution, is to promote the progress of art. The dominant justification for intellectual property among US legal scholars today is the incentive theory, the ...