(21 Feb 2025)
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New York – 20 February 2025
1. Medium of AI generated art
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"Christie’s augmented reality auction is an auction of 34 pieces created by AI, and it’s the first auction of its type. It’s the first one to sell only artworks created by AI."
3. Wide of art with corresponding microphone input device
4. Wide of AI tapestries
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"One of the issues with AI art is the concern that it infringes on copyrights by taking data points that are not actually in the public domain. By taking data, by taking images, by taking written words, by taking musical recordings that actually aren’t free for the public to use, and having those points create something new."
6. Medium of tapestries
7. Top pan of tapestries
8. Wide of AI diptychs
9. Bottom pan of diptychs
10. Wide of gallery space with diptychs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"Christie’s has expressed the fact that art has always kind of built on other art, that art has always been created using evolving technologies. And this is just the next step."
12. Wide of electronic display AI art with figurine
13. Detail of AI art information
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"And Christie’s has also said that it’s not clear whether these programs actually are using unlicensed images and infringing."
15. Detail of figurine
SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"And for this reason, artists are protesting. There have been over 6000 artists that have signed an agreement that has requested that Christie’s stop the sale. And Christie’s has not."
16. Wide of gallery summary on wall
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"Artists are very concerned about the long term implications of AI generated art and the fact that this art may be encouraging copyright infringement and the fact that an auction house like Christie’s with its reputation and the fact that it’s a household name is selling these works may encourage the continuation of this infringement."
18. Medium of AI collage art
19. Detail of collage art
20. Medium of Christie’s front
21. Medium of pedestrians passing Christie’s
22. Wide of Christie’s signage
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Amineddoleh, intellectual property lawyer:
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"And under U.S. copyright law, it’s required that there is a human creative element in copyrighting a work. So it’s really hard for the US copyright office, for attorneys, for collectors, for artists, and really for the whole art market to understand that division between technology and human creativity."
24. Medium of visitors with AI art
25. Wide of visitors with AI art
26. Detail of moving AI art and reflections
STORYLINE:
Christie’s is holding its first auction selling only AI-generated art.
But not everyone’s happy—over 6,000 artists signed a petition to stop it.
They say AI pulls from copyrighted work without permission, and that’s a problem.
Christie’s argues art has always evolved with technology, and this is just the next step.
Now, the art world is debating where technology ends and human creativity begins.
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