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According to the copyright board a promot is not anymore than any person commissioning a work from an artist, which does not provide copyright, and the lack of human authorship for the design decisions still stops it from being protected by copyright.

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Textual inversion involves providing self-created images, which should confer copyright in the same way AI images of DC's superman are considered to fall under the copyright of DC. In other words, commissioning fanart still allows the original owner of the IP to exert copyright -- shouldn't that be the case here?

Copyright.gov says the copyright office has started an initiative to examine AI copyright issues.

That makes me think even the copyright board is not confident of their answer.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

They released this guidance earlier this month. It isn't that difficult to understand.

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