# Is AI-Generated Art Free from Copyright? 🤔

Source: https://whatismaven.com/byamara/is-ai-generated-art-free-from-copyright-%f0%9f%a4%94/
Published: 2022-11-18
Updated: 2025-11-20

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This is going to be a very tricky copyright case because whatever’s decided will set the precedent for how content creators get paid for their work!

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## Transcript

So, within the last year, you may have heard about AI-generated art, especially with OpenAI’s platform, DALL-E.

AI image generators scrape publicly available pictures across the web to train their algorithm. These images that are sampled are typically copyrighted works that come from a variety of websites, most namely Getty Images.

Getty Images actually just banned AI-generated art due to these copyright issues. So, where the issue comes from is that there is no credit or compensation for content creators who make these original images.

Like I said, Getty is banning AI-generated artwork. They’re using the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, which is a project that was just formed in February 2021 by Adobe, Sony, BBC, Microsoft, Twitter, and a bunch of other companies, in order to filter out AI-generated content.

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