From Imitation to Innovation: The Emergence of AI Unique Artistic Styles and the Challenge of Copyright Protection

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Main Authors: Jia, Zexi, Huang, Chuanwei, Zhu, Yeshuang, Fei, Hongyan, Deng, Ying, Yuan, Zhiqiang, Zhang, Jiapei, Zhang, Jinchao, Zhou, Jie
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author Jia, Zexi
Huang, Chuanwei
Zhu, Yeshuang
Fei, Hongyan
Deng, Ying
Yuan, Zhiqiang
Zhang, Jiapei
Zhang, Jinchao
Zhou, Jie
author_facet Jia, Zexi
Huang, Chuanwei
Zhu, Yeshuang
Fei, Hongyan
Deng, Ying
Yuan, Zhiqiang
Zhang, Jiapei
Zhang, Jinchao
Zhou, Jie
contents Current legal frameworks consider AI-generated works eligible for copyright protection when they meet originality requirements and involve substantial human intellectual input. However, systematic legal standards and reliable evaluation methods for AI art copyrights are lacking. Through comprehensive analysis of legal precedents, we establish three essential criteria for determining distinctive artistic style: stylistic consistency, creative uniqueness, and expressive accuracy. To address these challenges, we introduce ArtBulb, an interpretable and quantifiable framework for AI art copyright judgment that combines a novel style description-based multimodal clustering method with multimodal large language models (MLLMs). We also present AICD, the first benchmark dataset for AI art copyright annotated by artists and legal experts. Experimental results demonstrate that ArtBulb outperforms existing models in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Our work aims to bridge the gap between the legal and technological communities and bring greater attention to the societal issue of AI art copyrights.
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spellingShingle From Imitation to Innovation: The Emergence of AI Unique Artistic Styles and the Challenge of Copyright Protection
Jia, Zexi
Huang, Chuanwei
Zhu, Yeshuang
Fei, Hongyan
Deng, Ying
Yuan, Zhiqiang
Zhang, Jiapei
Zhang, Jinchao
Zhou, Jie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Current legal frameworks consider AI-generated works eligible for copyright protection when they meet originality requirements and involve substantial human intellectual input. However, systematic legal standards and reliable evaluation methods for AI art copyrights are lacking. Through comprehensive analysis of legal precedents, we establish three essential criteria for determining distinctive artistic style: stylistic consistency, creative uniqueness, and expressive accuracy. To address these challenges, we introduce ArtBulb, an interpretable and quantifiable framework for AI art copyright judgment that combines a novel style description-based multimodal clustering method with multimodal large language models (MLLMs). We also present AICD, the first benchmark dataset for AI art copyright annotated by artists and legal experts. Experimental results demonstrate that ArtBulb outperforms existing models in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Our work aims to bridge the gap between the legal and technological communities and bring greater attention to the societal issue of AI art copyrights.
title From Imitation to Innovation: The Emergence of AI Unique Artistic Styles and the Challenge of Copyright Protection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04769