The U.S. Copyright Office said that book images created using the artificial intelligence (AI) program Midjourney should not have been given copyright protection, Reuters news agency reports.
据路透社报道，美国版权局表示，使用人工智能 (AI)程序 Midjourney创建的书籍图像不应受到版权保护。
 
A copyright is a kind of legal protection that bars others from copying works made by the people who created them or own the copyright.
版权是一种法律保护，禁止他人复制创作者或拥有版权的人制作的作品。
 
Zarya of the Dawn writer Kristina Kashtanova will be able to get a copyright for the parts of the book she wrote and ordered. But she will not receive copyright protection for images she made using Midjourney, the office said in its letter.
Zarya of the Dawn作家克里斯蒂娜·卡什塔诺娃 (Kristina Kashtanova) 将能够获得她编写和订购的书中部分的版权。但该办公室在信中表示，她使用 Midjourney 制作的图像不会获得版权保护。
 
The decision is one of the first by a U.S. court or agency about copyright protection for works created with AI.
该决定是美国法院或机构首次就人工智能创作作品的版权保护做出的决定之一。
 
The decision comes at a time when AI software like Midjourney, Dall-E and ChatGPT are being used to create written and other materials.
这一决定是在 Midjourney、Dall-E 和 ChatGPT 等人工智能软件被用于创建书面材料和其他材料的时候做出的。
 
The Copyright Office said in a letter that it would change its registration for Zarya of the Dawn to leave out images that are not the product of humans.
版权局在一封信中表示，它将更改对黎明之曙光的注册，以删除非人类产品的图像。
 
The research laboratory Midjourney did not immediately answer a request for comment. The Copyright Office had no comment on the decision.
研究实验室 Midjourney 没有立即回复置评请求。版权局未对该决定发表评论。
 
Kashtanova called it "great news" that she kept the copyright for her story and arrangement of the images. She said the decision "covers a lot of uses for the people in the AI art community."
卡什塔诺娃称这是“好消息”，她保留了她的故事和图像安排的版权。她说这个决定“涵盖了人工智能艺术界人士的很多用途。”
 
She added that she and her lawyers were considering how best to press ahead with their argument. They believe that the images themselves were a "direct expression" of Kashtanova's "creativity and therefore copyrightable."
她补充说，她和她的律师正在考虑如何最好地推进他们的论点。他们认为这些图像本身是卡什塔诺娃“创造力的直接表达”，因此具有版权。
 
Midjourney is an AI system that creates images based on written instructions. Kashtanova wrote the text of Zarya of the Dawn, and Midjourney created the book's images based on her instructions.
Midjourney 是一个人工智能系统，可以根据书面说明创建图像。卡什塔诺娃 (Kashtanova) 撰写了黎明之查莉娅 (Zarya of the Dawn)的文字，中途 (Midjourney) 根据她的指示创作了书中的图片。
 
The Copyright Office told Kashtanova in October it would reconsider the book's copyright. The agency said that was because her application did not describe using Midjourney to create the images.
版权局在 10 月份告诉 Kashtanova，它将重新考虑该书的版权。该机构表示，这是因为她的申请没有描述使用 Midjourney 来创建图像。
 
The office said that it would give copyright protection for the book's text and the way Kashtanova chose and arranged its elements. But it said she was not the "master mind" behind the images themselves.
该办公室表示，它将为该书的文本以及卡什塔诺娃选择和安排其元素的方式提供版权保护。但它说她不是图像本身背后的“主脑”。
 
"The fact that Midjourney's specific output cannot be predicted by users makes Midjourney different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists," the letter said.
“用户无法预测Midjourney 的具体输出这一事实使得 Midjourney 出于版权目的与艺术家使用的其他工具不同，”信中说。