US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI created content without human input | AI-assisted editing is allowed, but AI-generated images are not
https://www.techspot.com/news/106562-us-copyright-office-rules-out-copyright-ai-created.html
US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI created content without human input | AI-assisted editing is allowed, but AI-generated images are not
https://www.techspot.com/news/106562-us-copyright-office-rules-out-copyright-ai-created.html
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From the article: The US Copyright Agency is publishing a series of reports about the relationship between copyright and AI. Despite the complexity of the issue, the organization has already said that AI-based works with no human intervention cannot enjoy copyright protection at all.
Movies and other complex works created through AI means cannot be copyrighted, except when these AI tools are used to further develop pre-existing content. The US Copyright Office (USCO) recently published its second report on copyright and artificial intelligence, dealing with the “copyrightability” of outputs generated by large language models and other AI systems.
The report focuses on the level of human contribution to AI-made works, which is a crucial point in deciding if copyright can be applied to those works. The USCO received more than 10,000 comments about the issue, the vast majority of which said that existing copyright laws were adequate to be applied purely to AI outputs.
However, participants had different opinions about generative AI outputs involving “some form” of human contribution. Copyrightability must be determined on a case-by-case basis, the report states, but new legal principles are needed to deal with AI-made content. If said content was generated by simply entering prompt texts into an AI service, authorship and copyright cannot be applied, USCO said.
Feels like a big loop hole waiting to happen. Who will be able to prove human interaction with creation and then what constitutes enough for it to be copyrighted. Seems like the last gasp of a dying system.
It really doesn’t matter much though, does it? If the content is Ai generated, it’s probably not intended to be copyrighted anyway.
How much human creation is needed to justify AI assisted editing?
Can you generate a picture and have an artist edit it to justify AI assisted editing? How can you tell? Are we using an Honor system?
“I didn’t generate this character with AI”
That’s it. That’s all it takes to go from non copywritten character, to copywritten character. Because right now people with half a brain can do it, and in a year even 0 skill is going to make flawless characters so all of this is irrelevant.
I the end, there won’t be away to prove how much is genned VS not. Certainly not ancient dinosaur people working at these jobs.