Thanks for the link, interesting reading. I can totally appreciate the angle that some generations may be too trivial to be worthy of protection.
I happen to be in the UK, and this happens to match my expectations, but it does strongly imply more regional variation than I’d have guessed:
> The situation may be different in the UK, where copyright law allows copyright on a computer-generated work, the author of which is the person who made the arrangements necessary for the work to be created. This, in my opinion, is the user, as we come up with the prompt and initiate the creation of the specific work. I think that there may be a good case to be made that I own the images I create in the UK.
I happen to be in the UK, and this happens to match my expectations, but it does strongly imply more regional variation than I’d have guessed:
> The situation may be different in the UK, where copyright law allows copyright on a computer-generated work, the author of which is the person who made the arrangements necessary for the work to be created. This, in my opinion, is the user, as we come up with the prompt and initiate the creation of the specific work. I think that there may be a good case to be made that I own the images I create in the UK.