What’s of interest? AI Authorship Revisited – Communications of the ACM
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intelligence (GenAI) technologies, such as texts, images, and music, eligible for copyright protection? This question has puzzled copyright experts around the world since the mid-1960s.
Until ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, that question addressed only a “toy problem.” That is, it was an intellectually interesting topic for discussion, but lacked commercial or societal significance. (See my July 2020 Communications Legally Speaking column on AI authorship) Well, that was then, and this is now.
This column reviews the evolving policy views of the U.S. Copyright Office that address the copyrightability of outputs question. It mainly focuses the Office’s January 2025 report Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability.a
Where is it?: AI Authorship Revisited – Communications of the ACM
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