[ti:US Agency: AI-created Images Cannot Receive Copyright Protection] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]The U.S. Copyright Office said that book images [00:04.60]created using the artificial intelligence [00:08.08](AI) program Midjourney should not have been given [00:13.04]copyright protection, Reuters news agency reports. [00:17.96]A copyright is a kind of legal protection [00:21.56]that bars others from copying works [00:24.56]made by the people who created them or own the copyright. [00:29.36]Zarya of the Dawn writer Kristina Kashtanova [00:33.76]will be able to get a copyright [00:36.36]for the parts of the book she wrote and ordered. [00:39.92]But she will not receive copyright protection for images [00:44.48]she made using Midjourney, the office said in its letter. [00:48.96]The decision is one of the first by a U.S. court or agency [00:54.24]about copyright protection for works created with AI. [00:59.04]The decision comes at a time when AI software [01:02.72]like Midjourney, Dall-E and ChatGPT [01:07.28]are being used to create written and other materials. [01:11.76]The Copyright Office said in a letter that it would change [01:16.08]its registration for Zarya of the Dawn [01:19.24]to leave out images that are not the product of humans. [01:23.84]The research laboratory Midjourney [01:26.36]did not immediately answer a request for comment. [01:30.36]The Copyright Office had no comment on the decision. [01:34.92]Kashtanova called it "great news" that [01:37.76]she kept the copyright for her story [01:40.48]and arrangement of the images. [01:43.56]She said the decision "covers a lot of uses [01:46.68]for the people in the AI art community." [01:50.12]She added that she and her lawyers were considering how best [01:54.96]to press ahead with their argument. [01:57.56]They believe that the images themselves [02:00.84]were a "direct expression" of Kashtanova's [02:04.28]"creativity and therefore copyrightable." [02:07.56]Midjourney is an AI system that creates images [02:11.80]based on written instructions. [02:15.00]Kashtanova wrote the text of Zarya of the Dawn, [02:18.72]and Midjourney created the book's images [02:21.72]based on her instructions. [02:24.48]The Copyright Office told Kashtanova in October [02:28.16]it would reconsider the book's copyright. [02:31.28]The agency said that was because her application [02:35.20]did not describe using Midjourney to create the images. [02:39.48]The office said that it would give copyright protection [02:43.88]for the book's text and the way Kashtanova chose [02:48.00]and arranged its elements. [02:50.40]But it said she was not the "master mind" [02:53.44]behind the images themselves. [02:56.00]"The fact that Midjourney's specific output [02:59.24]cannot be predicted by users [03:01.76]makes Midjourney different for copyright purposes [03:05.08]than other tools used by artists," the letter said. [03:09.88]I'm John Russell. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM