An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.
In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.
Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”
You said it was based on the contract. The ToS literally says Midjourney owns the copyright. This is pretty cut-and-dried.
I’m getting really tired of trying to explain this to you. Their copyright does not give them ownership, it gives them very specific rights. These rights are:
If you create CSM with Midjourney, they are not the owners and it cannot be used to sue them. They don’t want that smoke. They do not want ownership. They make it very clear in the part you skipped over that you own your work, they simply own the right to “reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute”.
This is literally all about copyright. Hence the copyright office being sued.