Van Lindberg, a San Antonio, Texas Partner at Taylor English Duma LLP, has made headlines in his groundbreaking quest to advocate for full copyright ownership by his client Kristina Kashtanova for a work partially created through an artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Midjourney.
On February 21, 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a decision bestowing copyright ownership upon Kashtanova, but only as to the text and organization of images in Kashtanova’s 18-page work titled Zarya of the Dawn (“the Work”), not as to any of the individual images themselves. A copy of that decision, as well as of Mr. Lindberg’s preceding (Nov. 2022) letter to the Copyright Office, can be obtained via a link in Mr. Lindberg’s linked IPWatchdog article.
