{"id":13710,"date":"2026-06-17T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:28:00","slug":"how-the-creator-act-does-and-doesnt-protect-creators-from-ai-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13710","title":{"rendered":"How The CREATOR Act Does and Doesn\u2019t Protect Creators From AI Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"border-color:#000000;border-width:3px;border-top-left-radius:30px;border-top-right-radius:30px;border-bottom-left-radius:30px;border-bottom-right-radius:30px\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default has-border-color has-bg-shade-background-color has-background has-small-font-size\">\n<li>The CREATOR Act, a bipartisan bill, aims to protect artists from unauthorized AI replication of their visual styles.<\/li>\n<li>Supported by Adobe, the CREATOR Act doesn\u2019t prevent AI systems from being trained on an artist\u2019s work without consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, OpenAI released an image-generation feature, and many users went wild with it, prompting the company to create images in the signature styles of many studios and artists, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/03\/studio-ghibli-hasnt-commented-on-openais-onslaught-of-ai-copies-but-the-fan-subreddit-has\/\">including<\/a> Studio Ghibli. These images have proliferated the internet, and in many instances, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1905332049021415862\">one<\/a> posted by the White House, depicting a crying woman being handcuffed by an ICE agent, were never authorized nor in the spirit of the original artist (or in this case, a Japanese animation house) whose style is being aped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As is often the case, technology is outpacing current laws, and there is nothing on the books that legally protects artists and designers from AI slurping up their work and using it to generate visuals in their style. A new piece of legislation, however, purports to give creatives some protection against AI-generated style theft.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/how-the-creator-act-does-and-doesnt-protect-creators-from-ai-theft\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CREATOR Act, a bipartisan bill, aims to protect artists from unauthorized AI replication of their visual styles. Supported by Adobe, the CREATOR Act doesn\u2019t prevent AI systems from being trained on an artist\u2019s work without consent. Last year, OpenAI released an image-generation feature, and many users went wild with it, prompting the company to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}