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Are you using AI to generate content? Read this. AI-Generated Works Aren’t Protected By Copyrights, Federal Judge Rules. If you use AI to write a book, music, video, code, or anything else, it is not copyright protected. Judge said protection is only afforded to works created by humans.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/ai-generated-creative-works-cant-be-copyrighted-judge-rules/

AI-Generated Creative Works Can't Be Copyrighted, Federal Judge Rules

As questions swirl about how artificial intelligence will impact the music business, a federal judge offers one definitive answer.

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Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC Aug 19, 2023

@nixCraft I don't even publish any of the works I make manually under copyright but under copyleft. Copyright stinks. If AI images can't be copyrighted, maybe they can't be copylefted either, but who cares? More free content for anyone to use!

@LordCaramac @nixCraft You don’t have a choice about copyright. It applies automatically. The license terms you use don’t apply without it.

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC Aug 19, 2023

@mos_8502 @nixCraft Well, any copyleft license is basically just copyright turned inside out, to ensure everybody get to access it and use it, instead of limiting access and use for profit.

@LordCaramac @nixCraft Copyright only means the holder has the right to dictate terms. The license is the terms dictated. Without copyright, license terms don’t exist.

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC Aug 19, 2023

@mos_8502 @nixCraft Without copyright, there would be no need for copyleft.

Shiraz Turvey 💙 🌲Aug 19, 2023

@nixCraft Reminds me of a TNG episode when Data was told he had no rights over media he'd created - the writers were doing a good guess predicting where we'd be going.

natriumchloride Aug 19, 2023

@nixCraft precisely put it should be protected by copyright but ai prompters aren't considered to be the authors

Eugene Teplitsky Aug 19, 2023

@nixCraft As I already replied to a few similar warnings on the topic, please consider the critical nuances of the ruling:

According to the ruling and commentary, only fully AI-created works with no substantial human input are ineligible for copyright. Consider the amount of human input that goes into a typical generative process: the prompt itself, the selection and curation, inpainting, outpainting, post-processing, etc..

So I would urge calm on the matter. Most AI creatives should be fine.

Fuchsiii~~~Aug 19, 2023

@nixCraft same goes for Germany btw. No copyright for machine generated content. (Unless later edited sufficiently to warrant copyright, or is part of a bigger work that qualifies for copyright)

@fuchsiii @nixCraft which is based off the fact that in Germamy, all works of natural persons have copyright unless not copyrightable and only natural persons can create copyrightable works that only natural or legal persons can possess, license or administrate in terms of licensing.

"AI" lacks personhood both naturally and legally, thus cannot create anything that falls under it.

#NotLegalAdvice

@fuchsiii @nixCraft
Same goes with violations:
Only natural persons can violate copyright.

And in terms of code there are only a very finite ways to solve a specific problem or task in any given programming languague at reasonable complexity and efficiency...

https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/

GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright

Felix Reda

Terminhell Aug 20, 2023

@nixCraft I could see an argument for the work belonging to the LLM creators instead. I'm not for that either, but it's kind of like when a child creates something or is eligible for large sums of money, it defaults to the parents/trust.

Cam Aug 20, 2023

@nixCraft interesting, considering (compiled) software goes through a process not completely dissimilar to AI before the binary is produced, resulting in (partially) machine generated code that hasn't been written by a human.

@nixCraft
Wasn't copyright awarded to a chimpanzee a few years ago? I wouldn't expect such a ruling to go unchallenged. Though I agree that machines should not gain copyright protection, there are several deep pocketed companies that would not agree.

Rickyx Aug 20, 2023

@bruce @nixCraft "Chimpanzees display numerous signs of intelligence, from the ability to remember symbols to cooperation, tool use, and perhaps language." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee
As humans' "closest living relative" they are not machines but instead very clever! 😊

Chimpanzee - Wikipedia

G. Allen Morris III Aug 21, 2023

@nixCraft so most of the movies made for the last couple of years aren't protected?