Tisha MorrisFounder & Principal Attorney, Legacy Arts Law PC · 🎬 Entertainment Attorney | Protecting & Empowering Filmmakers, Authors, Artists & Creators | Founder of Legacy Arts Law® | Legal Clarity for Creatives

Midjourney and copyright law #publishing #ai #copyrightlaw #midjourney #shorts

24 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Tisha from Entertaining Law informs viewers that the U.S. Copyright Office has denied a registration request for artwork created with Midjourney, even though the creator applied extensive Photoshop edits and custom prompts. She emphasizes that AI‑generated works from Midjourney are likely not eligible for copyright protection, meaning creators cannot legally prevent others from copying or using the images. The message serves as a caution to anyone using Midjourney for commercial or personal projects, highlighting the risk of having no legal protection for such artwork.

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Hey TikTok, this is Tisha with Entertaining Law, and today I am talking to Midjourney users. Yes, the Copyright Office has just denied another request to copyright artwork from Midjourney. So if you're using Midjourney to create artwork for books, for artwork for walls, for any reason, know that it's likely not going to be copyrightable. Okay, meaning you can't protect your work and other people can, you know, swipe it from the internet or whatever without you having any protections. All right, so this was a second denial of a known filing in which he used a lot of Photoshopping, a lot of edits and things to make his own— use his own prompts, and yet the office still denied his application. So just know it's probably not going to be copyrightable.