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The Copyright Office confirms protection for the author’s text and selection, coordination and arrangement of text and images, excluding Midjourney-generated images. It says a narrower certificate will be issued, retaining the effective date of 2022-09-15.
What changed
The Copyright Office confirms protection for the author’s text and selection, coordination and arrangement of text and images, excluding Midjourney-generated images. It says a narrower certificate will be issued, retaining the effective date of 2022-09-15.
Institutional context: the whole comic does not lose copyright, nor is AI use banned. The document held is the decision letter, not a verified replacement certificate.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: separate treatment of text, arrangement and generated images provides institutional context for the boundaries of human-authored protection.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
Evidence & sources
The Copyright Office confirms protection for the author’s text and selection, coordination and arrangement of text and images, excluding Midjourney-generated images. It says a narrower certificate will be issued, retaining the effective date of 2022-09-15.
SRC-0117PDF pages 1–5: decision, registration history, text and arrangement protection; pages 8–9: generated-image analysis
United States Copyright Office · EN · 2023-02-21
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