Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI

Post by vidarh » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:23 AM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #256

BarryMilo wrote: post #207

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I've been changing my mind a lot on AI these past few weeks. I don't think the price is what stops most people from reading books. People already have access to countless works they don't have time to read, adding a bunch of soulless ones to this seems like it won't change much.

As a (once avid) reader, the worrying part will be discovery. Why I was eight I could pick any book off the library shelf and it was interesting and enlightening. Today, the noise so outdrowns the signal that I have to rely on recommendations. Tomorrow, when both the books and the recommendations will be generated by bots outpacing human authors by orders of magnitude, I expect that quality new material will be impos…

Post by andybak » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:29 AM UTC

Riverheart wrote: post #180

pmoriarty wrote: post #165

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"if databases are copyrightable because they represent curation, then software must be too." Circling back around to creative works, the process of making art is also one of curation, as had been amply demonstrated over 100 years ago by the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.[1] The curation involved in prompt selection and selection of which AI-generated works/images to use should therefore be just as copyrightable as dat…

I'll just go ahead and say Readymades aren't art and express my belief that the artistic community will survive the copyright loss of loosely arranged furniture so we can avoid justifying the current state of affairs with avante garde silliness. John Cage made a musical piece 4'33 which is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence which has as much to do with music as Readymades do with art. His other works include curated…

Post by nige123 » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC

Post by heikegaichengji » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:53 AM UTC

Post by yipbub » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:58 AM UTC

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #245

alphanullmeric wrote: post #213

Unpopular opinion : the government shouldn’t protect your art from getting used as training data. The government shouldn’t protect your generated art from being copied. Intellectual property is not real property. Nothing is being taken from you. Force is only justified in response to force, and you don’t get the right to throw someone in jail for “stealing” something you still have.

Do you also agree that government should not enforce if I borrow your bike while you are not using it if I return it? If not how is that different? You still have the bike and you werent using it while I borrowed it - you just didn’t know I was borrowing it