How many times will AI prove that our copyright laws are no longer fit for purpose?

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readSep 12, 2023

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IMAGE: Two boards of images created by robotic hands and holding a large copyright sign with a question mark in its center
IMAGE: Gerd Altmann — Pixabay

Once again, the U.S. Copyright Office has refused to register an image because it was originally generated by an algorithm, despite the fact that its author, throughout a creative process starting with Midjourney, had subjected it to numerous revisions and had edited it significantly using Photoshop.

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)