It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I've noticed that some AI generators insert living artists' names in to their prompt words without the user knowledge. To me, that is a violation of the artists' intellectual property rights, that being their name/trademark. As to things like "in the style of _____ " might be difficult to argue the artist being named is being wronged. However, when it is obvious the Ai diffusion results look just like something that artist would have created, that could be a stick point. According to LegalZoom, "The creator of the derivative work owns the copyright to the derivative work. This can either be the creator of the original work, or someone else who has obtained a derivative work license from the holder of the original copyright. The copyright of a derivative work is separate from the copyright to the original work." The big "HOWEVER" is given by the US Copyright office in the examples of what constitutes a derivative work. Those examples, when it comes to visual art are: • A sculpture based on a drawing • A drawing based on a photograph • A lithograph based on a painting Thus, an image that looks like a Thomas Kinkade work, but resembles none of his actual work except for the style, is NOT a derivative work. However, something done, for example, in the style of Van Gough but is identical to a Kinkade painting as to the subject matters in the painting IS a derivative work. It's not a violation of copyrights to copy someone's style. It is also very important to note that in the USA, any Ai generated art is automatically in the public domain. That means, as much work as someone puts in to an Ai diffusion, they cannot claim copyright. Thus, I have zero claim on all of my Ai posts. Yes, I provided the prompt words, and sometimes a seed image, but the result of that Ai diffusion is fair game for anyone to take and use however they want... and that is where diffusions that are obviously derivatives of copyrighted work become the basis of these lawsuits. P.S. I am not a lawyer, just one who has studied copyright laws in order to protect my personal work when I had a portrait studio... and I was an associate professor at Golden Gate University who had to deal with a juris doctorate students (and what a pain in the but they were when it came to their whining about getting a low grade.)