Can you copyright artwork made using AI?

您可以使用人工智能创作的艺术品申请版权吗?

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-08-25

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Copyright is the legal system used to reward and protect creations made by humans. But with growing adoption of artificial intelligence, does copyright extend to artwork that’s made using AI? Today on the show, how a test case over a Vincent Van Gogh mashup is testing the boundaries of copyright law.   Related episodes: ‘Let’s Get it On’ … in court  Copyright small claims court The alleged theft at th heart of ChatGPT  For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.  Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Waylon Wong.

  • You've probably heard about all the lawsuits against AI companies by groups of writers,

  • The New York Times, and Getty Images.

  • They've all alleged the big AI firms violated their copyright by scraping up their material to train AI systems.

  • But there's another issue at hand, too.

  • And joining me to talk about that today is Emma Jacobs.

  • Welcome.

  • Hi. Hi, Emma.

  • And you are a reporter in beautiful Montreal, Canada.

  • I am.

  • Thank you for having me.

  • And that other copyright issue being raised by generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALI is who owns the stuff they produce?

  • Or even more complicated, Waylon,

  • what if you use ChatGPT to partly create something and then a human creates the rest?

  • Is it eligible for copyright?

  • And if so, who holds it?

  • You are breaking my brain, Emma.

  • So today on the show,

  • we look at these issues through the story of one guy who mashed up a photo he created with Van Gogh's Starry Night.