A New Image Wall for the website and legal aspects of AI generated images!

We've added another image wall to the website to show off many of the AI images that we generated for the website's blog content. You can access the wall from the additional functions on the main menu of this website.

All articles in the blog are headed by an image portraying the general content of the article, like the one shown here for an article about the wonders of water;

Occasionally, we also generated AI images within the article, such as the following simplistic depictions of water molecules;

In the picture at the top of this article, you can seen the three superb mages generated for the article 'What is a photon?'

How do you generate an image with AI?

If you want to use an AI program to generate an image or a diagram, give it plenty of detail and sit back and wait to see what comes out! You may need a number of refinements and even some manual image-editting to get to a suitable end-result. The point is that AI programs are capable of producing excellent art work. There are two very fine examples in the image wall, showing AI renditions of Newton and Einstein for two articles about gravity, from each man's point of view and that was pretty much all that the AI program was told.

A WORD OF WARNING: You do need to check the content of any picture produced by AI in detail, especially if written descriptions have also been generated on the output. As all the AI programs inform you, they can make mistakes and this includes any picture content that they produce, as we can testify.

Now for the big question about AI art.

Who owns the copyright of art generated by AI?

The following text in italics has been produced by Google AI in answer to the above question;

Who owns the copyright of an AI-generated image depends heavily on local law, ranging from no one (public domain) in the US to the person who made the arrangements in the UK, or the platform's contract terms.

UNITED STATES

• No Human Authorship, No Copyright: Courts and the U.S. Copyright Office hold that copyright requires a human creator. Pure AI outputs made from simple prompts belong in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted by anyone.

  
  

• Human-Assisted Edits: If a human significantly changes, alters, or blends the AI image with traditional creative work, copyright applies only to the human-made edits.

  
  

UNITED KINGDOM

• Computer-Generated Works: Under the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, works without a traditional human author can still get copyright protection.

  
  

• The Arranger as Author: The law states the "author" is the person who undertook the "arrangements necessary for the creation of the work". Legal experts interpret this to mean the user prompting the AI likely owns the output, though this has not been fully tested in modern courts.

  
  

PLATFORM TERMS OF SERVICE

• Contract vs. Copyright: Many AI companies state in their terms that users own the generated files.

  
  

  However, a private contract cannot grant true copyright protection if the law in your country says the work is ineligible.

A WORD OF CAUTION!

Lawyers will no doubt dispute the above guidelines in court cases to come in the future, where those with sufficient funds to appeal over and over again will likely set the precedents, turning the subject into a legal minefield!

TO ALL: Check local laws, before claiming copyright to any AI images you might create.

The Images on our BLOG ARTICLE IMAGE WALL

As far as we are concerned, we claim no copyright to any of the images produced for the blog: copyright only applies to the articles' written words. You can copy the images from the wall and use them for any purpose. All we ask, is that you mention the website where you obtained them, i.e., modern-physics-journey.com

The Images in the books

None of the images in the main series or the LIGHT adaptions, for Part1, Part2 and Part3 were created using AI. They were all created from scratch using digital paint-packages and fall under the copyright declaration of the book itself.

However, if you wish to use any of the images from the original IMAGE WALL, which displays some of the pictures from the book series, please feel free to do so, on condition that you mention that they were taken from the book series 'A Journey into Modern Physics' by Kieron Conway.

We hope this article has been of value to some of you!

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