The U.S. Copyright Office supported a copyright registration for a comic book created with the help of an artificial intelligence program, but said that individual AI-generated images couldn’t be granted protection, the latest development in a closely watched case that has become a barometer for how AI art might be treated in the eyes of the law.
New York-based author and software developer Kris Kashtanova initially obtained copyright protection for the 18-page graphic novel “Zarya of the Dawn” last year. Mx. Kashtanova, who uses a gender-neutral honorific and pronouns, used a series of
written prompts to guide the AI software Midjourney to create the images in the book, which describes the voyage of young person through several futuristic worlds and was the subject of an article in The Wall Street Journal last month.
