What legal questions must be answered to determine the international copyright status of generated art?
<p>Below is my best understanding of how art is generated by machine learning. I understand that the copyright ownership of the final product and any infringement in the process is currently an open question.</p>
<p>Are any of the steps below:</p>
<ul>
<li>already obviously fair use</li>
<li>identified as the core of the legal problem (e.g. &quot;we don't know if step X is transformative&quot;)</li>
</ul>
<p>I am asking in the context of international law.</p>
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<h2>Authorship</h2>
<p>Copyright can only be granted to a human author. The end user might have a copyright in the prompt, but as it is currently held, nobody can hold a copyright in the resulting images, as they have no human author.</p>

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