Digital-Copyright

The Originality Certification Paradox: Why Your Midjourney Prompt Now Requires 'Imaginative Humility' to Avoid Being Flagged as a 'Creativity Violator'

SEATTLE — I tried to generate an image of a cat today, and was immediately stopped by a pop-up warning that my prompt lacked sufficient “empathy for digital non-human entities.”

The Federal Digital Copyright Council has issued a new directive requiring all prompt engineers to file a 12-Page Creativity Declaration before any image generation can proceed. This comes after reports of mid-level artists being fired for using the word “beautiful” in their prompts without obtaining a preliminary “Aesthetic License.”