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Photo Wrongs

Images have Copyrights

What about composites and AI-generated graphics?

Header Image for a Special Interest Group: Creative Writers

This header graphic is a composite of a main image from Unsplash together with a part image from Pixabay, and a background from Canva. I added the text in Photoshop. It is a hybrid image. What is its provenance?

The Last Umbragraph: an illustration to a short story

The second image is an illustration to a short story. It is created from a text prompt in NightCafe - an artificial intelligence art generator. I claim copyright on the text of the story because I wrote it; but what of the image? Does the image belong to anyone? Here is the story in action.


From Dr Balsamo’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Click on the Pic.

Steve Mongkut