Illustration for brands

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AI as an assistant, and the rights questions

Lesson 9 of 10 in Illustration for brands.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 9 October 2026.

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The Illustrator module covers what each of Adobe's AI tools does and costs, and the AI course has a whole module on ethics and the law. This lesson sits between them. It asks what AI is good for in a brand's illustration work, where brands have drawn the line, and what the rights questions look like for drawings a brand needs to own.

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  1. Question 1, locked

    What did the US Copyright Office's report of 29 January 2025 conclude about prompts?

    • A detailed enough prompt makes the output fully protected
    • Prompts are protected but the outputs are not
    • Prompts alone do not give enough control for copyright
    • Prompts must be registered alongside the image
  2. Question 2, locked

    Why did the US Copyright Office's Review Board refuse to register SURYAST?

    • The app, not the applicant, decided how the photograph and the painting were combined
    • The photograph had been taken by someone else
    • The Starry Night is still in copyright
    • The applicant did not mention the app at all
  3. Question 3, locked

    As of October 2026, what is India's policy position on who owns an AI-generated drawing?

    • Every generated drawing belongs to the company that made the model
    • DPIIT has declared all generated work to be in the public domain
    • The courts have settled it in favour of AI developers
    • There is no settled answer, because DPIIT's paper on AI-generated work had not appeared

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