You can create award-winning art with AI. Can you copyright it?

You Can Create Award-Winning Art With AI. Can You Copyright It?

This AI-generated image won first place in digital art at the Colorado State Fair.

(Jason Allen via Midjourney)

The art world was rattled when Jason M. Allen won first place in the Colorado State Fair for an image called “Théatre D’opéra Spatial.” It’s digital artwork created with artificial intelligence.

But is Allen really the artist, legally speaking? Should our legal system redefine what constitutes art as we know it? And can government cling to historical notions of authorship even as AI promises to redefine how we create?

We begin to explore some of these complicated questions surrounding art and AI in this episode of our UnCommon Law ...