Copyright Ownership Issue of AI Painting

Chenxi He

2025

Abstract

Nowadays, AI painting technology has rapidly become popular, and the resulting issue of copyright ownership has increasingly become the focus of attention from all walks of society. This article aims to explore this hot issue in depth. It takes the ‘legal status of AI’ and ‘the allocation of copyright’ as the starting point for the research, and then carry out detailed analysis of the dilemma faced by the copyright ownership of AI painting works. By analyzing the views of different scholars and cases, this article finds that the focus of the controversy is concentrated on three key points. Firstly, whether artificial intelligence has legal subject qualification and enjoy independent rights. Secondly, the characteristics and rights attribution model of AI painting works. Thirdly, the profit allocation mechanism between developers and users. Through research, the author found that AI cannot be a subject of rights and software developers as rights holders or developers sharing rights with users is not appropriate. Based on these conclusions, this study argues that the copyright of AI painting works is most feasible and reasonable to belong to the user of the software, and it can also be clarified in advance through the user agreement.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

He C. (2025). Copyright Ownership Issue of AI Painting. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS; ISBN 978-989-758-785-6, SciTePress, pages 210-214. DOI: 10.5220/0014359600004859

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icplss25,
author={Chenxi He},
title={Copyright Ownership Issue of AI Painting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS},
year={2025},
pages={210-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014359600004859},
isbn={978-989-758-785-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS
TI - Copyright Ownership Issue of AI Painting
SN - 978-989-758-785-6
AU - He C.
PY - 2025
SP - 210
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0014359600004859
PB - SciTePress