create the art that feeds into AI tools and to voice the characters – likely making it eligible for copyright protection, according to Nik Kleverov, Co-founder of Native Foreign, another production studio involved in the project.
But the broader question remains unresolved: Who owns the output when AI does the heavy lifting? Google hasn’ t publicly addressed how Gemini Storybook handles the intellectual property of the images and styles it generates.
For parents creating bedtime stories, it may not matter. For businesses considering AI-generated content at scale, it’ s more of a risk.
“THE THRESHOLD FOR HOW REAL IT HAS TO BE TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE REAL WILL JUST KEEP MOVING … MEDIA IS ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT REAL AND A LITTLE BIT NOT REAL”
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