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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?

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[–] commandar@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

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.