AI Imitating Artist ‘Style’ Drives Call to Rethink Copyright Law


May 31, 2023

Bloomberg

The rise of generative artificial intelligence models that can create graphic, textual, or even audio outputs at a user’s request led lawmakers this month to ask whether an artist’s style can be protected as intellectual property. The answer, for now, appears to be no.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) asked during a May hearing on the intersection of AI and copyright law whether pop star Taylor Swift would have any recourse if a program created music that imitated her style without lifting her lyrics or composition...

“We’ve never had a situation in which this personal style of individual creators could be imitated as well and as inexpensively as we now have with AI,” said Robert Brauneis, co-director of George Washington University Law School’s IP program. “It definitely puts certain creators in jeopardy, threatens their livelihoods,” he said, highlighting that lesser-known creators are particularly at risk.

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