I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?
I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?
This AI ruling is also actually completely in-line with existing precedent from the photography world.
The US Copyright Office has previously ruled that a photograph taken by a non-human (in this case, a monkey) is not copyrightable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute
If he had deliberately caused the monkey to take that photo, he might have owned the copyright.
If you pay a photographer to take photos at your wedding, you own the copyright for those photos - not the photographer.
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Sure, you can have a different contract. However the default contract, if you pay someone to do a thing, is a “Work For Hire” agreement. That’s what the legal status of the photos will be if there was no contract signed and you just said “i’ll pay you a hundred bucks to take a photo”.
You probably actually wouldn’t when it’s 5 times more expensive.
If you deal with the photographer that you own the images from the wedding and that’s in the contract, yeah. Otherwise, traditional copyright law would apply, and the photographer gets the rights.
Unless it is explicity specified in a contract, no you wouldn’t. Most people don’t.