If a TV show generates a script using AI in which animated characters read using AI voices... would I be allowed to then distribute/remix the portion of that episode? What does the distinction requirement actually do besides serve as a notice, is there some kind of diminished rights?
Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
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#22How does this affect programming? Does this mean if a program was built using GitHub Copilot, that in order to have copyright on software, you have to explain that to the copyright office?
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#23Seems like a win for artists who oppose generative AI. Now those who use AI to claim a copyright are "put on notice" to clearly disclaim the AI generated portions of their content. It will be interesting to see if Prompts themselves could be copyrighted, since presumably humans came up with the prompts.
Companies will just outsource to small studios/individual artists that don't admit they use AI.
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#24> If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it. > For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office's un…
Based on this reasoning, does that mean that you could not claim copyright over a picture captured by a motion sensor camera. Basically you instructed it to capture when it determined movement and the camera determined how those instructions are implemented in its output.
Has anyone tried to claim copyright over that before? I wouldn't be surprised if it was rejected.
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#25> If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it. > For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office's un…
Based on this reasoning, does that mean that you could not claim copyright over a picture captured by a motion sensor camera. Basically you instructed it to capture when it determined movement and the camera determined how those instructions are implemented in its output.
I'd think so, considering how security camera installers never put any effort into capturing footage themselves and are usually the only ones to have the opportunity to do so.
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#26So if movies use AI to help create characters they won't be able to claim copyright? I expect Hollywood studios will have something to say about this. With AI already being deeply integrated into DCC tools this stance isn't going to last long. And how will it be enforced if the artists don't show how they made the art?
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#27This is all very sane and consistent with previous opinions on the matter. But it doesn’t answer any tough questions either, like: if an AI model outputs something very close to a training input, does the result infringe on the copyrights of the input work?
This article talks about what is copyrightable. Your question is about infringement of already copyrighted material.
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#28> If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it. > For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office's un…
Based on this reasoning, does that mean that you could not claim copyright over a picture captured by a motion sensor camera. Basically you instructed it to capture when it determined movement and the camera determined how those instructions are implemented in its output.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on this reasoning, does that mean that you could not claim copyright over a picture captured by a motion sensor camera. Basically you instructed it to capture when it determined movement and the camera determined how those instructions are implemented in its output.
Has anyone tried to claim copyright over that before? I wouldn't be surprised if it was rejected.
Yes, definitely. Trail/nature cam photos fit this description.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on this reasoning, does that mean that you could not claim copyright over a picture captured by a motion sensor camera. Basically you instructed it to capture when it determined movement and the camera determined how those instructions are implemented in its output.
Has anyone tried to claim copyright over that before? I wouldn't be surprised if it was rejected.
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