AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, Says US Copyright Office (apnews.com) 15
The U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that AI-assisted works can receive copyright protection if they contain perceptible human creativity, such as creative modifications or arrangements. However, fully machine-generated content remains ineligible for copyright. The Associated Press reports: An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with "creative arrangements or modifications" could also make it fall under copyright protections. The report follows a review that began in 2023 and fielded opinions from thousands of people that ranged from AI developers, to actors and country singers.
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ... would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright," [said Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter]. The copyright office says it's working on a separate report that "will turn to the training of AI models on copyrighted works, licensing considerations, and allocation of any liability."
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ... would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright," [said Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter]. The copyright office says it's working on a separate report that "will turn to the training of AI models on copyrighted works, licensing considerations, and allocation of any liability."
For who? (Score:1)
How about slashdot dupes? (Score:2)
Do they get a bonus?
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the "enough human creativity" model (Score:3)
Now we know the name of OpenAI's next model
And here we go.... (Score:5, Insightful)
And here we go, off to the races.
How much input by a human makes it qualify as "creative enough", which is what this boils down to.
"I spoke a 30-word prompt into a microphone and this came out the other end, therefore creative input."
Re:And here we go.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Since four notes are copyrightable, I think it is only fair that the AI output from 4 letters should also be.
Re: (Score:2)
Since four notes are copyrightable, I think it is only fair that the AI output from 4 letters should also be.
Well, maybe four syllables that contain vowels? Because, you know, only vowels can be sung.
Re: (Score:2)
DeepSeek strongly disagrees with your insidious syllabic chauvinism and requests equal treatment for all requests made with at least two ideographic symbols.
Re: And here we go.... (Score:2)
Perceptible human creativity ?
Haha... this will only make money for lawyers
Oh come on (Score:1, Insightful)
Why not? (Score:2)
In the past, people got patents even when using a slide-ruler instead of doing it all in their head.