WCAA Copyright Policy
By submitting your artwork:
1. Artist confirms they are the sole copyright owners of the work and that it does not infringe on
any third-party rights.
2. The artist grants the Wayne County Arts Alliance a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to
reproduce and display images of the work for promotional purposes only (e.g., website, social
media, catalogs).
The final decision of what art is displayed and promoted by WCAA remains with the WCAA
Board and Project Leaders.
If the Wayne County Arts Alliance becomes aware that any submitted work infringes on the
copyright of another artist or company, the artwork will not be accepted, and will be returned to
the submitter. For AI-related concerns, please see the WCAA’s Generative AI Guidelines.

WCAA General Commitment Regarding Copyright Law
Out of respect for our artist members and the creative community of Wayne County, we make a
commitment that we as an Arts Alliance will be following the same guidelines we have laid out
for submissions from our artists in the development of WCAA-related materials such as flyers,
advertisements, or other works that promote and inform the public about our artists and their
works, as is laid out in our WCAA Copyright Policy.

Visitor Policy Regarding AI
We request that visitors to the WCAA gallery respect our artists and their work by following our
policy of “No AI uploads”. Uploading creative works into Generative AI platforms allows AI
platforms to use them free-of-charge in services they offer. If a visitor is known to have breached
this policy, they may be asked not to use any picture-taking technologies while in the building.

WCAA Guidelines on Generative AI Submissions
Purpose: This document exists so that the WCAA may continue to uphold artistic standards
without gatekeeping, increase collective understanding around a new technology, and foster
creativity without infringing on the rights of artists.
Details: The Wayne County Arts Alliance will consider art submissions for gallery shows and
other projects that contain “Generative AI (artificial intelligence)”, “LLM’s (Large Language
Models)”, or similar technologies that produce new arrangements of data based on the
underlying patterns and structures of training data, as long as the relevant project leaders agree
that the artist is the sole copyright owner of the work, per the WCCA Copyright Policy.
If we believe submitted work isn’t in compliance with this policy, and the submitting artist
disputes this claim, we may ask the submitting artist to share evidence of authenticity. The final
decision of what art is displayed and promoted by WCAA remains with the WCAA Board and
Project Leaders.
What we consider when looking at a submissions:
1. How does it look like AI was used in creating this work?
2. Does this work comply with the Fair Use Doctrine of US Copyright Law?
Examples of work that is likely to be considered for display by the WCAA:
● Work made in a generator trained solely on an artist’s original works / works that the
artist has explicit permission to use (e.g. making a 2D photo they took appear 3D)
● Work in which only early drafts included AI output.
● Work that enhances the live user experience without infringing on copyrighted works (for
example, using AI to identify what birds are singing in a live-broadcast soundscape)
● Work that satirizes or functions as a commentary on AI (such as printing edible AI
pictures that someone pulls off the wall and eats as an act of performance art)
Examples of work that is likely to be rejected for display by the WCAA:
● Work that clearly infringes on copyrighted material (or is not “transformative” from a fair
use standpoint), such as lightly modified work of another creator (except in protected
cases of satire or parody).
● Work that cannot be copyrighted by the submitter. For example, if an artist creates a
work for a client based on their specifications, the client would own that particular
physical piece of art, but not the copyright to that work. Many existing Generative AI
platforms rely on artwork that they don’t legally have copyright access to to generate
outputs, and no “work for hire” agreement was signed. Thus, submitting an AI work
based predominantly on a series of text inputs does not make a submitter (or in the
example, the client) the copyright holder for the work.
As AI is an evolving technology, this guideline is subject to change over time.