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  • Artist* Jason Allen has requested judicial review of the US Copyright Office's decision to deny him copyright on his* piece Théâtre D'opéra Spatial.  (Ars Technica)

    At issue is that Allen did not paint the image, neither in a traditional physical medium, nor in a digital one.  It was generated using Midjourney.
    "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce that human expression, he dedicated more than 100 hours to refining Midjourney text prompts through an iterative process that he estimates took more than 600 prompts. Allen told Ars that through this process, he crafted his own prompt language after determining "which parts of his instructions were effective and which were not," as well as which parts were "not even considered."
    If it took you ten minutes to try each prompt, I would have to wonder what you were doing in between.
    The Copyright Office has said that Allen's prompts are copyrightable, but only Midjourney was responsible for the output derived from the prompts. Walsh told Ars that if Allen had used any non-AI tool to transform the final image a little, even just applying a filter, he would be "good to go" to register his work and sue anyone who "verbatim copies" it.
    Surprisingly, and the EFF concurs, the Copyright Office has this pretty much right.

    * For some value of this term.


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1 That video reminds me, I still have a copy of the "Lightspeed can of Ravioli fired at a Star Destroyer" file, that dates back to the early 90's on the Elbows mailing list.

Which had the amusing reply that Cerenkov Radiation is the Lightspeed police flashing their lights at you.

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