In 2025, even your refrigerator can generate art. Algorithms write jingles, compose portraits, and design logos… all in seconds. Automation has officially crossed from the back office into the creative studio.
AI can extend creativity, but it shouldn’t replace it. Ethical AI use means starting from your own ideas and assets, not from scraping others’ work.
Photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists can think of AI as an assistant—a digital collaborator that expands imagination while keeping creative direction and authorship human.
Disney recently filed a lawsuit claiming that Midjourney’s AI image-generation system unlawfully reproduces Disney-owned characters and imagery.
The suit argues that AI models trained on copyrighted works violate intellectual property rights when they generate “derivative” or “lookalike” images.
Your photos are your intellectual property but only if you know how to protect them. In Colorado, as in the rest of the United States, copyright protection starts the moment you create an image.
