Just because photos and other images are available online doesn’t mean they’re free. Like any other creative work, most images on the internet are protected by copyright .

Using your images is the most secure approach to keep copyright disputes at bay. You immediately own the copyright on an image if you take it or create it yourself. Your best choice for storing ...

Artists are hoping the case is decided more like Napster. "The idea of streaming music was valid, but doing it legally ultimately meant bringing the songwriters and musicians to the bargaining ...

We all need copyright-free stock images from time to time, whether for blogging, making a presentation, or other creative projects. And of course, you need them for journalistic works, too ...

The UK’s AI copyright exception hands Big Tech free access to artists’ work without consent or compensation, threatening the future of human creativity and IP rights ...

Here’s how you can opt out of training some of the more popular generative AI models, or use tools like Glaze and Nightshade to protect art that’s used without permission.

Current diffusion-based AI models can and will reproduce copyrighted images from its data set, though rarely. It will get worse the bigger these systems become.

The legal, ethical and bigger philosophical questions around AI images and copyright will continue. But there's still a place for human creativity with AI, Keirsey said.

Anirban is an award-winning journalist with a passion for enterprise software, cloud computing, databases, data analytics, AI infrastructure, and generative AI.

When it comes to works that contain material generated by an AI, the USCO looks at whether the model's contributions to the work are the result of "mechanical reproduction" (i.e., generated in ...