An AI-generated color version of Ansel Adams’ “Moonrise” was offered for sale at The Photography Show in New York by Danziger Gallery. The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust stated it did not authorize, endorse, consent to, or acquiesce in the AI-generated color version and emphasized artists’ rights and moral rights. The Trust said no one should trade on another person’s name, reputation, and labor for private commercial benefit without consent and candor. James Danziger responded by claiming the original “Moonrise” image entered the public domain and that he confirmed this with a copyright lawyer. He said he created a transformative color rendition using AI, motivated by admiration for the iconic image and a desire to imagine what Adams saw while driving and photographing the scene.
"The owner of the Danziger Gallery has released a statement defending his actions after putting an AI-generated version of Ansel Adams' Moonrise on sale at The Photography Show in New York. PetaPixel reported yesterday that the Ansel Adams Publishing Right Trust put out a statement over the weekend making clear that it did not authorize, endorse, consent to, or acquiesce in the AI-generated color version' of Moonrise presented by Danziger Gallery at AIPAD. Rather than this being about the AI tools used by Danziger, the Adams Trust says it's fundamentally about artists' rights and moral rights."
"Adding that, no one should trade on another person's name, reputation, and labor for private commercial benefit without consent and candor. Public Domain But in a statement released last night, James Danziger says he has every right to create a new and transformative work since the Adams' Moonrise photo, taken on November 1, 1941, has passed into the public domain. I had long believed the image was in the public domain but to confirm this beyond doubt, I hired one of the most respected copyright lawyers in the country to ensure [sic] this was the case, Danziger writes defiantly."
"It was indeed confirmed to be in the public domain and I was free to create a transformative color rendition of the image and to exhibit and sell the resulting prints. Danziger says he generated the AI image out of his love of the iconic image, adding he wanted to create an imagining of what Adams saw in real life as he was driving along U.S. Highway 84 that made him stop his Pontiac station wagon and scramble to set up his bulky 810 view cameras as the sun was setting on the adobe church and cemetery crosses while the moon appeared through the clouds."
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