The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

In these last few months there has been a great deal of attention dedicated of the comic "Zarya Of The Dawn": a project whose images were generated entirely by the AI Midjourney, later curated and composed by the artist Kristina Kashtanova.

By now it has been established that the US Office dedicated to the protection of copyright does not consider the images of the comic as a valid subject to be protected, but rather takes into consideration and protects the texts written within the latter. That being said, the selection, visual composition and coordination of the work fall within specifications protected by copyright as well.

In this article we read the first-person opinion of the artist's legal team, in which they specify the big mistake made by the US Office in formulating the judgment: one must not focus on the output of the AI, but on the input by the author.