‘Beijing Internet Court Grants Copyright to AI-Generated Image for the First Time’

On November 27, 2023, the Beijing Internet Court (BIC) ruled in an infringement lawsuit (Li v Liu) that an AI-generated image is copyrightable and that a person who prompted the AI-generated image is entitled to the right of authorship under Chinese Copyright Law (see our bilingual version, and the later-released official translation). Plaintiff generated an image of a woman by using Stable Diffusion, an open-source generative AI model that creates images from textual prompts … (more)

[Yuqian Wang and Jessie Zhang, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2 February]

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