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Most AI art not protected, US Copyright Office says in long-awaited guidance

By Nick Robertson ( January 29, 2025, 15:10 GMT | Insight) -- The US Copyright Office’s artificial intelligence guidance excludes exclusively prompt-based work from copyright protection, a move that could severely hamper the burgeoning AI art industry. The second part of the office’s long-awaited AI guidance, published today, provides the most clear guidelines on AI work protections yet.The second part of the US Copyright Office’s guidance on artificial intelligence, published today, could have massive ramifications for the burgeoning AI art industry. The report states that AI works based only on prompts are not eligible for copyright protection....

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