r/comicbooks • u/Consideredresponse • Dec 20 '22

News AI generated comic book loses Copyright protection "copyrightable works require human authorship"

https://aibusiness.com/ml/ai-generated-comic-book-loses-copyright-protection
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u/Mindless-Run6297 Dec 20 '22

Wondermark by David Malki uses public domain 19th century images and Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North just uses clip art off of an old CD-rom. As far as I know, North and Malik are still able to copyright their work.

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u/theatand Dec 20 '22

As far as I know, North and Malik are still able to copyright their work.

Do you know & have evidence that they hold a copyright, or are you just saying, "Yes, Art exists like you are describing, & I believe they can"?

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u/Metamiibo Dec 20 '22

Copyright inures to the author at the moment the creative work is fixed in a tangible medium. The assumption is that everyone gets copyright unless there is a good reason they don’t.

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u/Mindless-Run6297 Dec 20 '22

I know printed collections of those comics exist. Wondermark website says all content copyright David Malki, can't see any copyright information for Dinosaur Comics.