I have what may be a very ignorant question: if model-generated code may not be copyrighted due to a requirement of human authorship (current US Copyright Office policy), does it therefore follow that model-generated code may not be licensed under any terms whatsoever? Meaning anything from MIT to GPLv3?
I recognize no answers here would constitute legal advice, but I would love to hear from legal experts on this.
@mttaggart (IANAL) as I understand it, in the USA no rights may be asserted. It's effectively immediately public domain. And as the USA signed up to the Berne Convention, USA produced AI code (or any AI 'art') can be used by anyone without restriction.
Sidebar: Same is true for US Derived satellite images as it's mechanically generated without a Human to produce it. Can't recall the workaround to that immediately but there is one.
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