An Analysis of the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Images

AI-generated images are a prime example of AI-generated content,and this paper discusses the controversy over their copyrightability.Starting with the general technical principles that lie behind AI’s deep learning for model training and the generation and correction of AI-generated images according to an AI users’instructions to the AI prompt and their parameter settings,the paper analyzes the initial legal viewpoint that as AI-generated images do not have a human creator,they cannot apply for copyright.It goes on to examine the rapid development of AI-generated image technology and the gradual adoption of more open attitudes towards the copyrightability of AI-generated images due to the influence of the promoting technological advancement approach.On the basis of this,the paper further analyzes the criteria for assessing the copyrightability of AI-generated images,by using measures such as originality,human authorship,and intellectual achievements,aiming to clarify the legal basis for the copyrightability of AI-generated images and enhancing the copyright protection system.

An Investigation into the Issues Concerning the Copyright of Content Generated by Text-to-Video AI

Text-to-video artificial intelligence(AI)is a new product that has arisen from the continuous development of digital technology over recent years.The emergence of various text-to-video AI models,including Sora,is driving the proliferation of content generated through concrete imagery.However,the content generated by text-to-video AI raises significant issues such as unclear work identification,ambiguous copyright ownership,and widespread copyright infringement.These issues can hinder the development of text-to-video AI in the creative fields and impede the prosperity of China’s social and cultural arts.Therefore,this paper proposes three recommendations within a legal framework:(a)categorizing the content generated by text-to-video AI as audiovisual works;(b)clarifying the copyright ownership model for text-to-video AI works;(c)reasonably delineating the responsibilities of the parties who are involved in the text-to-video AI works.The aim is to mitigate the copyright risks associated with content generated by text-to-video AI and to promote the healthy development of text-to-video AI in the creative fields.

Overview of the Impact of the Introduction of the Copyright Act 2020 on Digital Publishing

In November 2020,the third amendment of the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China was completed and officially implemented in June 2021,which is undoubtedly of great significance to Chinese citizens with a growing awareness of copyright.This has also triggered our thinking about the impact of Copyright Law on digital copyright.Through the analysis of the cases after the amendment of the Copyright Law,we find that to a certain extent,the Copyright Law has played a great role in the protection of digital copyright,but it is still unable to achieve comprehensive protection,and there are still some imperfections.From this point of view,the simple legal protection of digital copyright cannot be taken into account.It still needs to be combined with technical protection means,cooperate with social conditions,and work together to create a harmonious and healthy online publishing environment and promote the protection of digital copyright.

Research on IPFS Image Copyright Protection Method Based on Blockchain

In the digital information age,distributed file storage technologies like the InterPlanetary File System(IPFS)have gained considerable traction as a means of storing and disseminating media content.Despite the advantages of decentralized storage,the proliferation of decentralized technologies has highlighted the need to address the issue of file ownership.The aim of this paper is to address the critical issues of source verification and digital copyright protection for IPFS image files.To this end,an innovative approach is proposed that integrates blockchain,digital signature,and blind watermarking.Blockchain technology functions as a decentralized and tamper-resistant ledger,recording and verifying the source information of files,thereby establishing credible evidence of file origin.A digital signature serves to authenticate the identity and integrity of the individual responsible for uploading the file,ensuring data security.Furthermore,blind watermarking is employed to embed invisible information within images,thereby safeguarding digital copyrights and enabling file traceability.To further optimize the efficiency of file retrieval within IPFS,a dual-layer Distributed Hash Table(DHT)indexing structure is proposed.This structure divides file index information into a global index layer and a local index layer,significantly reducing retrieval time and network overhead.The feasibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated through practical examples,providing an effective solution to the copyright protection issues associated with IPFS image files.

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当Copyright遇到Copyleft

随着网络技术的发展 ,Copyleft应运而生。作为一种新的版权理念 ,它力促自由软件的产生与传播 ,对传统的版权制度体系 (Copyright)构成了挑战。但是 ,Copyleft并不企图全面否定Copyright,而是以承认Copyright作为存在的前提条件。与网络发展的步伐相适应 ,Copyleft的适用范围必将扩展至软件领域之外 。

Copyright与Copyleft的经济学分析

Copyleft是一种全新的知识产权理念,它将知识产品的权利对外开放,对传统的版权(Copyright)制度提出了挑战,引起人们的广泛关注。通过从经济学角度对Copyright及Copyleft制度进行了比较分析,认为Copyleft满足了网络社会知识集体生产的需求,是对Copyright的超越与补充;两者都是人们在利益最大化原则下对知识产品产权形式的理性选择,并将长期共存。

Copyright agencies in Beijing, China

Based on a study of copyright agencies in Beijing area, this paper reviews the historical development of the work of copyright agencies and their agents. It analyzes their business related problems that these copyright agencies and agents are facing today. This paper also proposes a few remedial measures that may usher this copyright industry into a more sustainable development and also with a more promising outlook.

Novel copyright protection scheme for digital content

A novel copyright protection scheme for digital content is presented, which is a private watermarking scheme based on the watermark embedding in the DCT domain and watermark extraction Using independent component analysis （ICA）. The system includes the key for watermark extraction and the host image. The algorithm splits the original image into blocks and classifies these blocks based on visual masking, that is, noise visibility function （NVF）. Watermark components with different strength are inserted into chosen direct current components of DCT coefficients according to the classifier. The watermark extraction is based on the characteristic of the statistic independence of the host image, watermark and key. Principle component analysis （PCA） whitening process and FastICA techniques are introduced to ensure a blind watermark extraction without requiring the original image. Experirnental results show the proposed technique is robust under attacks such as image filtering and adding noise, cropping and resizing. In addition, the proposed private watermarking system can be improved to the application of the DTV content protection system.

A Novel Digital Image Watermarking Scheme on Copyright Protection Based on Network Manufacture Environment

In this paper,we propose a novel wavelet-domain digital image watermarking scheme on copyright protection based on network manufacture environment.It codes the watermarking with error correcting coding and encrypts the watermarking with chaotic encryption.It embeds the watermarking into the coefficients which have large absolute values in the middle-frequency parts got by Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) repeatedly.The extraction doesn’t need the original image.Experiment results show that the proposed scheme is easy to implement,and has good robustness to some attacks,such as JPEG compression,average filtering,median filtering,wiener filtering,pepper (?) salt noise,especially to cropping and scaling.In order to solve the prob- lem of the copyright protection of the network manufacture production,the problems of digital image production such as tamper preventing and watermarking attacks preventing and so on are discussed.It solves the problems of manufacture information such as secure exchange and transmissions and production copyright protection and so on.

NEW APPROACH TO COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF IMAGE AGAINST GEOMETRICAL ATTACKS

To protect the copyright of the image as well as the image quality, a kind of image zero-watermark method based on the Krawtchouk moment invariants and timestamp is proposed. A method is used to protect the image, in which features are drawn out from the image as the watermarking. The main steps of the method are presented. Firstly, some low-order moment invariants of the image are extracted. Secondly, the moment invariants and the key are registered to a fair third party to gain the timestamp. Finally, the timestamp can be used to prove who the real owner is. The processing method is simple, only with a few low-order moment invariants to be computed. Experimental results are obtained and compared with those of the method based on geometric moment invariants. Results show that the scheme can well withstand such geometrical attacks as rotating, scaling, cropping, combined attack, translating, removing lines, filtering, and JPEG lossy compression.

A Visual Cryptography Based Digital Image Copyright Protection

A method for creating digital image copyright protection is proposed in this paper. The proposed method in this paper is based on visual cryptography defined by Noor and Shamir. The proposed method is working on selection of random pixels from the original digital image instead of specific selection of pixels. The new method proposed does not require that the watermark pattern to be embedded in to the original digital image. Instead of that, verification information is generated which will be used to verify the ownership of the image. This leaves the marked image equal to the original image. The method is based on the relationship between randomly selected pixels and their 8-neighbors’ pixels. This relationship keeps the marked image coherent against diverse attacks even if the most significant bits of randomly selected pixels have been changed by attacker as we will see later in this paper. Experimental results show the proposed method can recover the watermark pattern from the marked image even if major changes are made to the original digital image.

DCT based multipurpose watermarking technique for image copyright notification and protection

A multipurpose image watermarking technique based on DCT is proposed to notify and protect the copyright of digital products. In order to achieve this objective, the DCT coefficients of each image block are divided into two parts for embedding the visible and invisible watermarks. The visible watermark is embedded in each DC DCT coefficient and most of the AC DCT coefficients of every block, and the invisible watermark in the rest. Based on the characteristics of Human Visual System (HVS), the embedding strength of the visible watermark is varied in accordance with the underlying content of the host image. The invisible watermark is embedded in a quaternity of midrange frequencies. Experimental results show that the visible watermark is hard to remove and the invisible watermark is robust to common digital signal processing operations.

Transparent System for Digital Media Copyright Protection in Mobile Business

At present, in mobile business, the secure environment in the terminal of users has not been embedded, many cryptology-based methods can not be directly used to protect the copyright of digital media. Under this situation, a transparent system based on watermark for digital right management and digital copyright protection is proposed in this paper. The transparent system is called WDRM （watermark-based digital rights management） and transparent to users. Its core is WDRM Agent. In this paper, system inner model and procession are designed in detail at first, including the registration, the downloading, the super distribution, and the cooperation. Because the watermark embedding and the extraction algorithms are the kernel in this architecture, we also discuss how to choose and design the algorithms. Then we establish a package for all algorithms in WDRM Agent.

A Dual Model Watermarking Framework for Copyright Protection in Image Processing Networks

Image processing networks have gained great success in many fields,and thus the issue of copyright protection for image processing networks hasbecome a focus of attention. Model watermarking techniques are widely usedin model copyright protection, but there are two challenges: (1) designinguniversal trigger sample watermarking for different network models is stilla challenge;(2) existing methods of copyright protection based on trigger swatermarking are difficult to resist forgery attacks. In this work, we propose adual model watermarking framework for copyright protection in image processingnetworks. The trigger sample watermark is embedded in the trainingprocess of the model, which can effectively verify the model copyright. And wedesign a common method for generating trigger sample watermarks based ongenerative adversarial networks, adaptively generating trigger sample watermarksaccording to different models. The spatial watermark is embedded intothe model output. When an attacker steals model copyright using a forgedtrigger sample watermark, which can be correctly extracted to distinguishbetween the piratical and the protected model. The experiments show that theproposed framework has good performance in different image segmentationnetworks of UNET, UNET++, and FCN (fully convolutional network), andeffectively resists forgery attacks.

Research on Copyright Protection Method of Material Genome Engineering Data Based on Zero-Watermarking

In order to effectively solve the problem of copyright protection of materials genome engineering data,this paper proposes a method for copyright protection of materials genome engineering data based on zero-watermarking technology.First,the important attribute values are selected from the materials genome engineering database;then,use the method of remainder to group the selected attribute values and extract eigenvalues;then,the eigenvalues sequence is obtained by the majority election method;finally,XOR the sequence with the actual copyright information to obtain the watermarking information and store it in the third-party authentication center.When a copyright dispute requires copyright authentication for the database to be detected.First,the zero-watermarking construction algorithm is used to obtain an eigenvalues sequence;then,this sequence is XORed with the watermarking information stored in the third-party authentication center to obtain copyright information to-be-detected.Finally,the ownership is determined by calculating the similarity between copyright information to-be-detected and copyright information that has practical significance.The experimental result shows that the zero-watermarking method proposed in this paper can effectively resist various common attacks,and can well achieve the copyright protection of material genome engineering database.

论情态的模糊性——以“Big Myths about Copyright”为例

本文以韩礼德系统功能语言学的情态系统与模糊语言学的理论为依据．采取定量分析的方法分析“Big Myths about Copyright”一文。同时，对其情态的模糊性作了进一步探析。

A Image Copyright Protection Method Using Zero-Watermark by Blockchain and IPFS

Behind the popularity of multimedia technology,the dispute over image copyright is getting worse.In the digital watermark prevention technology for copyright infringement,watermark technology is considered to be an important technology to overcome data protection problems and verify the relationship between data ownership.Among the many digital watermarking technologies,zero watermarking technology has been favored in recent years.However,the existing zero watermark technology in the implementation process often needs a trusted third party to store watermarks,which may make the data too central,data storage security is low and copyright registration costs are too high,which creates a rare problem.The decentivization and information cannot be tampered of blockchain technology’s nature find new methods for image copyright protection.This paper studies the role of zero watermark algorithm in the image copyright and its complete storage and certification scheme,proposes a zero watermark image protection framework based on blockchain,and builds a system according to the framework.Combined with blockchain and zero watermarking technology,the framework uses inter IPFS(Inter Planetary File System)to solve the problem of blockchain efficient storage and sharing of large files.In addition,the application of user copyright information,image image query and image trading in the system are realized based on smart contracts,which solves the problem of lack of trusted third parties.Experiments show that the scheme is feasible and robust to various attacks.

Copyright Highway—Photocopying as Fair Use —Williams& Wilkins Co. v. United States

Fair use doctrine is easily controversial and difficult to judge,and owning to the coming of the new age,fair use doctrine becomes more troublesome.This paper will hold the balance between the right of reproduction of library and the publisher interests by approaching a case under these four elements:the requirement for the Purpose and character of the use;The nature of the copyrighted work;The amount and substantiality of the works used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;The effect of the use upon the potential market for and value of the copyrighted work.

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