**Research Firsts Exhibition: Image and accompanying text by the CREATe Centre**
![AI generated painting of some people in front of what appears to be large distillery flasks][1]
CREATe examines the interplay between law, creative labour markets and technology. In response to simple prompts, AI tools can instantaneously generate works that traditionally attract copyright (songs, music, images etc.) creating unprecedented conceptual shifts in understandings of authorship. AI has been heralded as a democratising force in creative sectors but is also viewed by many as posing an existential threat to these sectors. This image, generated by DALL-E depicts the CREATe team in the style of a Romanticist oil painting.
Copyright confers first ownership of a work on the author. Who is the author of this work? Who owns it?
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