The Zhangjiagang Court has dismissed a copyright infringement and unfair competition suit, ruling that ideas are not eligible for copyright protection. Creators using AI tools should ensure that their creative process is properly documented and could be reproduced.
Interesting take how the way they judged it is by generating more images using the same model and prompt.
The new images were to different from the originals. Concluding that there was not enough user input to claim an intended design.
Its possible that if a prompt was well designed to almost always provide the same user intended concept that this ruling was different.
An additional interesting note is that the company did first contact them to make a deal but the negotiations failed.