I travelled to Berlin to speak at FOSS Backstage about our MG case and AI-generated code with Dr. Andreas Kotulla. Turned out: every question from the audien...
To be fair, this doesn’t mean you can’t use AI as a tool. An artist or a software developer can generate things with AI and orchestrate the pieces to become a new whole. That whole could still be copyrighted.
Probably not. The Copyright Office maintains that merely prompting the AI, even prompting it further to alter the output, is not enough creative control to grant copyrights to its output. I’ve put the most relevant quotes here:
In that case the “orchestrate the pieces” part is copyrightable if it reaches a minimum threshold of creativity but the pieces themselves are still not copyrightable because a human still didn’t make them??
To be fair, this doesn’t mean you can’t use AI as a tool. An artist or a software developer can generate things with AI and orchestrate the pieces to become a new whole. That whole could still be copyrighted.
Probably not. The Copyright Office maintains that merely prompting the AI, even prompting it further to alter the output, is not enough creative control to grant copyrights to its output. I’ve put the most relevant quotes here:
https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/#More-Information
In that case the “orchestrate the pieces” part is copyrightable if it reaches a minimum threshold of creativity but the pieces themselves are still not copyrightable because a human still didn’t make them??